Lost Over Sea Tribute

In February 2022, during Storm Eunice, wreckage from a British World War II bomber washed up on the beach at Camperduin.

Further investigation revealed that this aircraft most likely crashed into the North Sea on December 17, 1942. The entire crew was killed. The eight crew members remain missing to this day.

Research into this aircraft brought the board of the Egmond '40-'45 Foundation into contact with the relatives. These conversations revealed how much they appreciated their continued dedication to keeping the memories alive after all these years.
One of these relatives suggested the idea of ​​erecting a monument.
This got them thinking: why not a monument for all the missing crew members over the North Sea? This is how the idea for the LOST monument, an acronym for Lost Over Sea Tribute, was born.

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All crew members had one thing in common: regardless of nationality, they all wore an ID tag.

This forms the basis of the monument. The shape and color of the ID tags vary by country.

In the monument, these name tags together form a person.
This stems from the idea of ​​commemorating together after 77 years.

The name tags fall from the sky, form an airman, and then fall back to the seabed.

Each name tag bears the name of an actual missing person over the North Sea.