Wallace Patrick Hannigan
Updated:
15 SEP 2012
Airman: a020001.htm Surname: Hannigan
Init: W P Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 97
P_link: p028.htm Plane: MAN L7324 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea.
Crash_d: d150541 Buried_d: b050841 C_link: c020.htm At_Next: Furreby
Den 15. maj 1941 styrtede
MAN L7324 i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen omkom.
Flyet forlod RAF Coningsby kl. 22.00 den 15. maj 1941 på et bombetogt mod
Berlin.
"S.O.S. kl. 23.00 at styrbords motor var gået i stå og den anden var ustabil, da
flyet var ud for
De Frisiske Øer 20 miles nord for Borkum (her)."
(MACR)
W. P. Hannigan må være drevet i land i
nærheden af Løkken (omkring
her).
Han blev begravet i Furreby den 5. august 1941. (Kilde: FAF)
Denne flyver var ukendt, da han blev begravet.
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Wallace Patrick Hannigan, 19 år, var søn af
Thomas Hannigan og Rebecca
Hannigan, Scarborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:CWGC)
1 flyver fra
MAN L7324 blev begravet i Furreby og 1 i Frederikshavn. 4
flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
6 flyvere.
On 15 May 1941
MAN L7324 crashed into the North Sea. All of the crew
perished.
The plane left
RAF Coningsby at 2200
hrs. on 15 May 1941 on a bombing raid targeting Berlin.
"S.O.S. 2300 hrs. to effect that starboard engine had cut and the other was
unstable when off
Friesian Isles 20 miles north of Borkum
(here)." (MACR)
W. P. Hannigan must have been washed ashore near Løkken (about
here).
He was buried i Furreby on 5 August 1941. (Source: FAF)
This airman was unknown when he was buried.
Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner)
Wallace Patrick Hannigan, 19, was the son of
Thomas Hannigan and Rebecca
Hannigan, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (CWGC)
O Lord, grant to his soul / rest and happiness / and the glory of thy light.
/ Amen.
See Bomber
Command No. 97 Squadron and
97
Squadron Association. This Manchester took off from
RAF Coningsby.
See also RAF
Coningsby at
RAF-Lincolnshire-info and the present
RAF Coningsby. Lost Bombers has
this.
6 airmen.