

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
et landingshjul og dele af en benzintank bjærget i farvandet nær Vejrø. Senere
drev liget af et besætnings-
medlem (Sgt G.W.A. Higson) ind på kysten ved Holsteinborg (måske omkring
her) på
Sjælland, og liget af et andet besætningsmedlem (Sgt J.W. Henry) drev i land på
Skalø (her)."
(FT 86-88)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) Geoffrey William Ardern Higson, 28 år, var søn
af Harold og Frances E. Higson.
Han var gift med Marjorie Kendal Higson, Gorton,
Manchester, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
2 flyvere fra
LAN W4230 er begravet på Svinø Kirkegård, 5 har ingen
kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos. 7
flyvere.
On 24 September 1942
LAN W4230 crashed into the sea near Vejrø, maybe about
here.
Zoom out.
LAN R5909 was lost on the same operation.
"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
Frances E. Higson, and the husband of Marjorie Kendal
Higson, of Gorton, Manchester, United Kingdom.
(Source:
CWGC) Remembrance
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 49.
2 airmen from
LAN W4230 are buried in Svinø Churchyard, 5 have no known
grave. See
Vickers Armstrong Wellington *
Vickers Wellington
* No. 9
Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * IX (B) Squadron Association
* p113MACR
has more. Lancaster I W4230 WS-P
took off from
RAF Waddington at
02:52 on 23 SEP 1942. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this + Notes.) 7 airmen.
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