Geoffrey William Ardern Higson Updated: 21 MAR 2022 Airman: a096006.htm Surname: Higson Init: GWA Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9 P_link: p113.htm Plane: LAN W4230 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Smålandsfarvandet Crash_d: d240942 Buried_d: b091042 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø Den 24. september 1942 styrtede LAN W4230 i Smålandsfarvandet nær Vejrø, måske omkring her. Zoom ud. LAN R5909 gik tabt i samme operation. p113MACR "83 Lancasters fra 5 BG angreb
Wismar
og den nærliggende Dornier fabrik. 4 fly gik tabt. Mellem kl. 0215 og 0400 skød
flere tyske skibe i Store Bælt mod de
overflyvende bombemaskiner, og den 26. september blev
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey William Ardern Higson, 28 år, var søn
af Harold og Frances E. Higson.
On 24 September 1942
LAN W4230 crashed into the sea near Vejrø, maybe about
here.
Zoom out. "83 Lancasters from 5 BG attacked Wismar and the Dornier factory nearby. 4 planes were lost. Between 02:15 and 04:00 several German ships in the Storebælt shot at the passing bombers. On 26 September a landing wheel and parts of a fuel tank were salvaged at sea near Vejrø. Later the body of a crew member (Sgt G.W.A. Higson) was washed ashore at Holsteinborg on Zealand, and the body of another crew member (Sgt J.W. Henry) drifted ashore on Skalø (here)." (FT 86-88)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey William Ardern Higson, 28, was the
son of Harold and of 2 airmen from
LAN W4230 are buried in Svinø Churchyard, 5 have no known
grave. |