Henry Edward Allman Updated: 29 MAR 2021
Airman: a116001.htm Surname: Allman Init: H E Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 90
P_link: p362.htm Plane: LAN LM184 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: At Aalestrup
Crash_d: d300844 Buried_d: b010944 C_link: c116.htm At_Next: Aalestrup
“Natten til den 30. August 1944 overfløj næsten 600 britiske bombefly
Danmark under bombe-
togter til henholdsvis Königsberg og Stettin (Kaliningrad og
Szczecin). Under
indflyvningen
over Nordjylland, Kattegat og Sverige blev formationerne til Stettin voldsomt angrebet af tyske natjagere...
Ved midnatstid styrtede et
brændende Lancaster fly ned lige syd for Aalestrup. Det eksploderede
i
nedslaget. Hele besætningen blev dræbt.
Den 31. august ved aftenstide
var der en højtidelighed på nedstyrtningsstedet, gårdejer Martin
Husums mark. En
katolsk og en evangelisk feltpræst var til stede, og mens fru Husum lagde
blomster på kisterne, gjorde tyske soldater honnør. Dagen efter, den 1.
september 1944, blev de
dræbte flyvere begravet af værnemagten uden gejstlig
medvirken." (FAF)
Se historien i detaljer om denne
besætning - en af mange! Uddrag::
Pilot Officer H.E. Allman, født den 12. januar 1911, var maskintegner, en dygtig pianist og
kordirigent
ved Tattenhall Kirke. Allman meldte sig samme dag krigen brød ud som
frivillig til RAF. Efter at være uddannet i Canada deltog han efter sin
hjemkomst først i 1943 i mange bombetogter over Tyskland.
I juli 1944 fødte fru Allman en søn, han fik navnet David efter vennen David
Sumsion.
Den 1. september 1944 modtog F/O Allmans forældre
i Chester et telegram, hvori der stod
"30. august 1944 Beklager at måtte meddele
Dem, at Deres søn F/O Henry Edward Alman savnes
som resultat af en luftoperation
natten 29/30. Aug... Enhver yderligere oplysning vi måtte modtage vil straks
blive kommunikeret til Dem..." Netop den 1. september var Allman og de 6 øvrige
flyvere blevet nedgravet på Aalestrup kirkegård som ukendte.
Men gårdejer Martin Husum, på hvis mark flyet var
faldet, fandt senere et identifikationsmærke, som
han gav videre til lederen af
modstandsbevægelsen i Aalestrup, smed
Arne Dantoft. Denne sendte
det til
Toldstrup, der telegrafisk underrettede London om fundet. Det blev oplyst, at
mærket havde
følgende inskription: "GB 153326 officer H.E. Allman CE-RAF" og at
flyverens kammerater alle var begravet på Aalestrup kirkegård.
Den 6. april 1945 kom telegrafbudet igen til
familien Allmans hjem i Chester. I telegrammet stod:
"Beklager dybt at måtte meddele Dem at ifølge oplysninger modtaget gennem en
pålidelig kilde må Deres søn F/O Henry Edward Allman antages at have mistet
livet som resultat af luftoperationer 29-30/8 1944... Ministeriet udtrykker sin
dybfølte sympati. Hans kone er blevet underrettet." (FAF)
Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Henry Edward
Allman, 33 år, var søn af George E. og Mary Allman, Chester; gift med
Gwynneth Vaughan Allman, UK.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase Panel
I 1995 sendte Sv. Aa. Dantoft, søn af Arne Dantoft,
en ring med initialerne HEA til Allmans enke. Michael, 11 år, havde
fundet den på nedstyrtningsstedet.
Mrs Gwynneth Allman var meget taknemlig! Det
var som en hilsen fra en anden verden - og hendes yngste barnebarn, hvis farfar
bar ringen, hedder også Michael!
(Kilde:
Randers Amtsavis 20. maj 1995)
LAN LM184 styrtede ned
her omkring 150 m nord for Hvamvej 36, 9620 Aalestrup. (Kilde: Kaj
Christensen, dengang 11 år. Han tog et par stykker af flyvraget, der
havde lavet
et kæmpestort krater.) Det var få minutter før LAN PA163
i en ildsøjle styrtede
ned i Lovns Bredning.
Se Lancaster fotos og
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - ruter og tab.
Historisk
Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om
dette fly og dets besætning.
7 flyvere.
In
the night before 30 August, 1944, nearly 600 bombers flew over Denmark on
bombing raids to Königsberg and Stettin (Kaliningrad and
Szczecin).
Flying over North Jutland,
Kattegat and Sweden heading for the targets the formations for Stettin were
heavily attacked by German night fighters. At least 10 British bombers were shot
down over Denmark that night. At
midnight a burning Lancaster crashed just south of Aalestrup. It exploded on
impact. All of the crew was killed.
On 31
August there was a ceremony in the evening at the crash site, farmer Martin
Husum´s field. A Catholic and an Evangelical army chaplain were present, and
German soldiers saluted while Mrs Husum laid flowers on the coffin. Next day,
on 1 September 1944 were the deceased airmen buried by the Wehrmacht without
ecclesiastical assistance." (FAF) See the story in details about this
crew - one of many! Excerpts:
"Pilot Officer H.E. Allman, born on 12 January 1911, was an assistant to a technical engineer, a skilled piano player and director
of the choir of Tattenhall Church.
The very day the war broke out Allman joined
the RAF as a volunteer. After his training in Canada he in 1943 participated in
many bombing raids over Germany.
In July Mrs Allman gave birth to a son, who was
called David after his friend David Sumsion.
On 1 September, 1944 F/O Allman´s parents in
Chester received a telegram saying: "30th August 1944 Deeply regret to inform
you that your son F/O
Henry Edward Allman is missing as result of air operation
on the night of 29/30 Aug ... Any further information received will be
immediately communicated to you..."
The very same day Allman and the 6 other
airmen had been dug down at Aalestrup Churchyard as unknown.
However, farmer Martin Husum, owner of the field
with the crash site, later found an identification tag, which he passed on to
the leader of the resistance movement in Aalestrup, blacksmith Arne Dantoft, who
sent it to
Toldstrup, who sent a wireless message to London about the find. It was said
that the tag had this inscription,
"GB 153326 officer H.E. Allman CE-RAF" and
that all of the airmen were buried at Aalestrup Churchyard.
On 6 April, 1945 the telegraph messenger again
came to the home of the Allmans in Chester. The telegramme read,
"Deeply regret to advise you that according to
information received through a reliable source your son F/O
Henry Edward Allman
is believed to have lost his life as
the result of air operations on 29/30/8
1944... The air council express their profound sympathy. His wife has been
informed..." (FAF)
Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Henry Edward
Allman, 33, was the son of George E. and Mary Allman, of Chester, and the husband of
Gwynneth Vaughan Allman,
United Kingdom. (Source:
CWGC).
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 122.
In 1995 Svend Aage Dantoft, son of Arne Dantoft,
could pass a ring on with the initials HEA to Allman´s widow. Michael, 11, had
found it at the crash site. Mrs
Gwynneth Allman was very grateful! It was like a
greeting from another world - and her youngest grandchild, whose grandfather
wore the ring, is also named Michael!
LAN LM184 crashed
here about 150 m north of Hvamvej 36, 9620 Aalestrup. (Kilde: Kaj
Christensen, then 11 years old. He took parts of the wreckage, which had
made an enormous crater.) It was a few minutes before
LAN PA163 in a column of fire crashed in Lovns Bredning.
See
No. 90 Squadron RAF
- Wikipedia *
Lancaster and
photos *
Operation 30 AUGUST 1944 - routes and losses.
Lancaster I LM184 WP-K
took off from
RAF Tuddenham at
21.07 hrs on 29 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this.) p362MACR 7 airmen.