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Joseph Melvin Hicks Updated: 26 OCT 2022 Airman: a003001.htm Surname: Hicks Init: J M Rank: Sgt Service: RCAF Sqdn: 420 P_link: p065.htm Plane: HAM P5330 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sønderby Bjerge. Crash_d: d250442 Buried_d: b280442 C_link: c003.htm At_Next: Assens
Tre omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter og J.H. Smith, blev den 27. april fulgt fra sygehuset til kapellet på kirkegården af omkring 500 Assensborgere. Begravelsen fandt sted om formiddagen den følgende dag. For den tyske kommandant mødte kaptajn Gielcke, ligesom et tysk æreskompagni havde givet møde. På hver af de 3 kister lå et engelsk flag, og der var kranse med signerede bånd fra den tyske værnemagt. Den tyske feltpræst Johannes Vorrath, København, forrettede begravelsen. Et overlevende besætningsmedlem blev taget til fange.” (FAF) Sergeant (Air Observer) Joseph Melvin Hicks,
21 år, var søn af John Joseph og Emily Hicks
Se øjenvidneskildring og
Omkring Hampden P5530.
Se monument
for de 3 dræbte flyvere
On 27
April three of the deceased members of the crew, J.M. Hicks, J. Potter and J.H. Smith,
were accompanied from the hospital to the chapel of rest in the
cemetery by about 500 citizens of Assens. The burial was next day before noon.
Captain Mielcke met for the German commander and a German company was
present as
a guard of honour. A Union Jack covered each of the 3 coffins, and there were wreaths
with inscriptions on ribbons from the German Wehrmacht.
A surviving member of the crew was taken prisoner.” (FAF)
See monument
to the 3 killed airmen from
HAM P5330 erected
here and
an eye witness account
Sergeant (Air Observer) Joseph Melvin Hicks,
21, was the son of John Joseph and Emily Hicks (née Payette) of Ft William,
Ontario, Canada. (Source: CWGC) |
