Callantsoog is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Schagen, and lies about 18 km south of Den Helder. Callantsoog was a separate municipality until 1990, when it was merged with Zijpe.
At the cemetery in Callantsoog lies the war grave of English pilot Norman David Crockart. On 26 June 1940 at 10:15 p.m., a Handley Page Hampden type I with serial number P1329 took off from RAF Waddington in England. The aircraft belonged to No. 50 Squadron of the Royal Air Force and carried a crew of four. Their mission was a strategic bombing raid on the airfield at Hanover, Germany.
During the flight, one of the engines failed for unknown reasons. This was reported to base via radio contact. At 3:59 a.m. on 27 June 1940, the message "Going down" was transmitted, after which the aircraft crashed into the North Sea. None of the crew survived.
The pilot, Norman David Crockart, was later buried at the cemetery in Callantsoog. Crew member Sgt Allen John Dennis Ingram was laid to rest at the cemetery of Nørre Haurvig in Denmark. The remaining two crew members, F/S William Thomas Joseph Southey and Sgt Eric Howard McKenzie Turner, were never found and are still listed as missing.
