Flight Sergeant Hyam Maurice Bluston was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1921, in Hackney, the son of Simon, a cabinet maker at the time of the 1911 Census, and Hannah Bluston (née Weiner), both of London.
Bluston, serving in 18 Squadron, died on 28 December 1944, when his Boston (serial BZ557) was struck by flak while engaged on a night-time operation to bomb the Villafranca airfield.[1]
He and his three fellow crew are buried in Coriano Ridge War Cemetery.
Notes[]
- ↑ P/O K G Hart, bbm.org.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
References[]
- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Bluston, Hyam Maurice, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.