John Raymond Hollington                                                                 Updated: 15 FEB 2010

Airman: e444002.htm Surname: Hollington Init: J R Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 224

P_link: p001.htm Plane: HUD N7216 Operation: Other Crash_site: Off Heligoland

Crash_d: d300939 Buried_d: 1111111 C_link: e444.htm At_Next: GERMANY

På en foto-mission blev HUD N7216 skudt ned den 30. september 1939 nordøst for Helgoland, måske omkring her. Hele besætningen omkom. (Kilder: AOD og FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) John Raymond Hollington, 21 år, var søn af Joseph James Luckett Hollington og Marie Stuart Hollington, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, United Kingdom. Hans bror Robert Luckett Hollington blev også dræbt i tjenesten. Hæder: Nævnt i dagsbefalingen. Han er begravet på Kiel War Cemetery (Kilde: CWGC)

Fra HUD N7216 er 1 flyver begravet i Klitmøller, 1 i Tyskland og 2 har ingen kendt grav.

Airwar over Denmark har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 4 flyvere.

On 30 September 1939 HUD N7216 was shot down on a photo mission northeast of Heligoland, maybe around here. All of the crew perished.
(Sources: AOD and FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) John Raymond Hollington, 21, was the son of Joseph James Luckett Hollington, and of Marie Stuart Hollington, of Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol,
United Kingdom. His brother, Robert Luckett Hollington, also died on service. Awards: Mentioned in Despatches. He is buried in Kiel War Cemetery (Source: CWGC)

1 airman from HUD N7216 is buried in Klitmøller, 1 in Germany and 2 have no known grave.

This Hudson I started from the airfield RAF Leuchars ordered by RAF Coastal Command.

See RAF Leuchars - Station History and History of No. 224 Squadron at The Royal Air Force History.

Airwar over Denmark has more about this plane and its crew. 4 airmen.