Families of World War Two airmen from County Durham will pay their last respects when their relatives are finally laid to rest after nearly 80 years.
The wreckage of Stirling BK716 was discovered in Lake Markermeer, near Amsterdam, in 2020 along with the remains of its crew- some 77 years after the RAF bomber was shot down in 1943.
Dutch authorities and local historians began trying to trace surviving relatives of the five British and two Canadian airmen on board, but were unable to locate the families of two County Durham crew members: Charles Armstrong Bell, originally from Langley Park, and Sergeant Ronald Kennedy, also from County Durham.
