Photo: David Sloan
P.K. Vartan
(of New Zealand)
Pilot
Royal Air Force
14th July 1940 Age 22
Till we meet again
P/Off. Vartan was with 220 Squadron. He was a crew member of Hudson I N 7231 NR-S based at Thornaby which was on patrol. On the return the aircraft hit a balloon cable and crashed at Boldon Colliery. The aircraft went on fire and the bomb-load exploded.
Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.1L Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-1941; Ross McNeill; 2003; Midland Publishing: ISBN 1 85780 128 8