Seven crew members died when a Halifax plane came down in Poland
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Relatives of a Sussex man killed in a World War II plane crash are being sought as an official Ministry of Defence funeral is planned in Poland.
Sgt Frederick George Wenham, an RAF flight engineer, died alongside six other crew members on board a Halifax JP276 which crashed in August 1944.
He was born in Rye, East Sussex, in 1923. His father was living in Freemantle, Southampton, when he died.
The MoD said it wanted to find his nearest living next of kin.
The seven members of 148 Squadron - two British men and five Canadians - took off on 4 August, 1944, to carry out a special operation over southern Poland.
The MoD said eyewitnesses reported seeing their Halifax plane on fire the next day near the town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, before it suddenly crashed into the ground and exploded.
The seven airmen are currently buried at the Krakow War Cemetery in Poland.
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