Henry Bruce Stirling Johnston          Updated: 06 MAR 2022
                                                                            
Airman: a106005.htm Surname: Johnston Init: HBS Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 9

P_link: p043.htm Plane: WEL R1455 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea SW of Højer.

Crash_d: d200841 Buried_d: b230841 C_link: c106.htm At_Next: Tønder

 ”I forbindelse med et bombetogt til Kiel nedstyrtede Wellington R 1455 i Vadehavet syd for
Højer Sluse, et par km ude (omkring her). Fra dansk side opgives nedstyrtningen til at være sket lige
efter midnat, den 20. august. Hele besætningen omkom.

Begravelsen af de omkomne flyvere blev foretaget af en tysk feltpræst den 23. august 1941. Ved højtideligheden var der et fælles dansk-tysk kommando. Først tysk militærorkester, så kisten svøbt i
Union Jack, derefter fulgte officerer i aldersorden: Den danske garnisonskommandant, oberst A. Poulsen, den tyske kommandant, major Pösche, kaptajn Oldfeldt. Desuden et tysk æreskompagni (reduceret) og
til sidst en gruppe danske soldater under kommando af en oversergent.” (FAF)

Sergeant (Observer) Henry Bruce Stirling Johnston, 21 år, var søn af Robert Hector og
Kathleen Hariot Johnston, Putney, London, United Kingdom. (Kilde:CWGC)    
Wellington * p043MACR.  6 flyvere. 

“In connection with a bombing raid on Kiel Wellington R 1455 crashed in the tidal area south of
Højer Lock about 2 km off the coast (about here). From the Danish side the crash is reported to have happened just after midnight,  20 August. All of the crew perished.

 The burial of the deceased airmen was carried out by a German army chaplain on 23 August 1941. At
the ceremony there was a joint Danish-German commando. First a German military band played, then
the coffin was wrapped in the Union Jack, then officers according to their ranks lined up: the Danish
garrison commander Colonel A. Poulsen, the German commander Major Pösche and Captain Oldfeldt.
Then a German company (reduced) as guard of honour and last a group of Danish soldiers commanded
by a Staff Sergeant.” (FAF)

Sergeant (Observer) Henry Bruce Stirling Johnston, 21, was the son of Robert Hector and
Kathleen Hariot Johnston, of Putney, London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 190. 
Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati 
They were not born for us alone but for the whole world (Translated by KK)

See No. 9 Squadron RAF * IX (B) Squadron Association * Wellington * p043MACR
Wellington Ic R1455 WS-D took off from RAF Honington at 21:14 on 19 AUG 1941.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.)  6 airmen.