Are tucked within Buxton, Derbyshire, except Sgt Hayton, RAF, that is buried on the Byker and Heaton Cemetery, Newcastle-on-Tyne, their home town.
Sgt. Frank Arthur Boese, RAFVR 1293282 – Navigator. Tucked Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) Standard Cemetery, The netherlands.. Grave location – Spot 13. Row 5. Grave ninety-five. ‘With tender like And you will deep feel dissapointed about We whom enjoyed might never forget’
– Attack Facing Goals at the Hamburg Nine aircraft were detail by detail in order to attack the above address with 4 pound. incendiaries. Hefty affect and you will icing was basically educated pushing four aircraft to go back very early. One or two routes attacked the target nevertheless they were unable to look at show compliment of ths. affect. Some An effective.An effective. flame and a few searchlights were came across although lower affect avoided reliability. Zero adversary routes was basically seen. Routing try a. A couple aircraft don’t return, they were Stirling step one BK604 captained by P/O J McCullough and you may Stirling step one R9280 captained by P/O K.H. Blincoe. It was a sad losses as they were a couple of oldest captains about Squadron, using them was also missing Sergt. Scott and you will P/O Henderson, a few new captains gaining sense just like the second airplane pilot. Which leaving us which have two headless teams.
P/O Kenneth Howard Blincoe, RNZAF NZ412194 – Airplane pilot. Sgt Г¦ldre asiatiske kvinder mГёdes. Andrew James Newell ‘Dougal’ Scott RNZAF NZ414685 – next Airplane pilot. Sgt. Frank Arthur Boese, RAFVR 1293282 – Navigator. Sgt. George Wood Make, RNZAF NZ412514 – Heavens Bomber. P/O Harold Lowe, RAFVR 905609/ 115129 – Cordless Driver. Sgt. Desmond David Hayward, RAFVR 651764 – Flight Professional. Sgt. Edward. McDermott, RCAF Roentgen.96960 – Mid Upper Gunner. Sgt. Desmond Clearwater, RNZAF NZ412314 – Rear Gunner.
R.9280 was attacked because of the a beneficial German evening-fighter along the Netherlands, if you are to base. The new routes damaged in the hours near Ingen, six miles North North-east of Tiel, Hollnd. All onboard had been murdered. They certainly were hidden inside the Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) Standard Cemetery.
F/O Henry Herbert Thomas Reaveley, RAFVR 1892370 – Airline Engineer
P/O Lester Lascelles Bonisch, RNZAF NZ422098 – Pilot. Murdered many years 21 towards the 11th out of June 1944 Child of Ernest Joseph and Clara Adelaide Bonisch, of Gisborne, Auckland, The fresh Zealand. Hidden Bayeux War Cemetery, France. Grave place – XI. K. dos. 167
– Attack Against Dreux Of your own twenty five aircraft detail by detail so you’re able to bomb Dreux, 22 efficiently assaulted during the an effective climate, the fresh new marshalling m are aesthetically understood up until they certainly were blurred because of the smoke. You to routes got an inconclusive combat that have a good JU.88. The brand new aircrafts captained by NZ422098 P/O. L. Bonisch and NZ422267 F/S. Donaghy, T. didn’t return.
P/O Lester Lascelles Bonisch, RNZAF NZ422098 – Airplane pilot. F/S James Murdoch Thomas McKenzie, RNZAF NZ427217 – Navigator. F/S James Stuart Millar, RNZAF NZ427220 – Air Bomber. Sgt Bernard ‘Bill’ Allen, RAFVR 968734 – Middle Higher Gunner. Sgt. Frank William Cousins, RAFVR 1237485 – Bottom Gunner.
The latest teams were trained to go back if they hit bad weather, which inturn it performed
Shortly after address, ME702, AA-Q is strike double by flak, just before breaking up in the air. Every staff is actually murdered, apart from Bernard ‘Bill’ Allen, the new crew’s Mid Top Gunner. Out-of Bill Allen’s Conflict Journal, here is their thoughts regarding the experience:
“The fresh new bomb aimer led brand new planes about the target, and you can offered the words “bombs went” to the skipper, that the skipper replied “bomb doorways closing”. No sooner or later got the guy got the text away from their mouth area than simply you will find a very good crash, me personally chair folded, my personal intercom went dead, I felt fantastic soreness in my leftover leg, therefore the aircraft is filled up with fire and you can tobacco cigarette. I scrambled getting my parachute which had been lying close to the head access of one’s flights, up that it stop the brand new cigarette smoking and you will flame was basically very thicker. To start with We would not find my personal chute in the smoking, my vision have been running and you will sore, together with flights are moving laterally in order for I decrease toward floors and had so you can claw my personal way along by the clutching in the hydraulic water pipes along the sides from the new fuselage. I got eventually to my chute and you can addicted they with the, as well there is a separate crash, brand new airplanes gave a beneficial lurch additionally the the next thing I know I happened to be sailing due to room. I grabbed new tear wire and you can taken it, this new chute unsealed without difficulty and i also floated down-to-earth thinking exactly what got happened, and hearing next trend out of Lanc’s bombing the target.”
