John Edward Hobgen                     Updated: 23 JAN 2022

Airman: a045006.htm Surname: Hobgen Init: J E Rank: Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 12

P_link: p075.htm Plane: WEL W5574 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d090542 Buried_d: b141042 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Kl. 22.14 den 8. maj 1942 lettede WEL W5574 fra RAF Binbrook på bombetogt mod
Heinkel-flyfabrikkerne i Warnemünde. (Kilde: p075MACR)
Kl. 01.16 meddelte flyet til basen, at der var opstået motorvanskeligheder. Derefter kom der ikke flere meldinger fra flyet, der må være styrtet i havet. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: FAF)

Den 12. oktober 1942 blev J. E. Hobgen fundet drevet ind på Rømø (måske omkring her). Den tyske feltpræst Bukin fra Sild forrettede begravelsen den 14. oktober 1942 på Kirkeby Kirkegård.

Sergeant John Edward Hobgen, 20 år, var søn af Thomas og Daisy Adelaide Hobgen, Toowong, Queensland, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra WEL W5574 blev begravet i Kirkeby og 3 i Kiel i Tyskland. 2 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
6 flyvere.

At 22.14 hrs. on 8 May 1942 WEL W5574 took off from RAF Binbrook on a bombing raid targeting
the Heinkel Works in Warnemünde. (Source: p075MACR)
At 01.16 hrs. it reported engine troubles to the base. No further reports were received. The plane must have crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: FAF)

On 12 October 1942 J. E. Hobgen was found washed ashore on Rømø (maybe about here).
The German Army Chaplain Bukin, Sylt, officiated at the graveside ceremony on 14 October 1942
in Kirkeby Churchyard.

Sergeant John Edward Hobgen, 20, was the son of Thomas and Daisy Adelaide Hobgen, of Toowong,
Queensland, Australia. (Source: CWGC)  They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old  
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1,P 49. 
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.

1 airman from WEL W5574 was buried in Kirkeby and 3 in Kiel in GERMANY. 2 airmen have no known grave.

See No. 12 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) and  12 Squadron RAF at RAF-Lincolnshire.info. Also Wellington  (bomb bay)
Wellington  II W5574 PH- took off from RAF Binbrook at 22.14 hrs on 08 MAY 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this)  6 airmen.