William J. Finlayson                                                                           Updated: 29 NOV 2016

Airman: e777417.htm Surname: Finlayson Init: W J Rank: P/O Service: RNZAF Sqdn: 75

P_link: p026.htm Plane: WEL P9292 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d241040 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Den 24. oktober 1940 styrtede WEL P9292 i havet.

"Under et bombetogt med Berlin som mål styrtede et Wellington fly i havet den 24. oktober 1940. Hele besætningen omkom.

Et af de omkomne besætningsmedlemmer, F. B. Cleak, blev fundet inddrevet som lig på Fanø (som er her) og blev begravet den 12. december 1940.

En britisk trawler opsamlede liget af en anden flyver, P/O Finlayson, der begravedes til søs. Resten af besætningen, 4 mand, har ingen kendt grav." (FAF)

Pilot Officer William John Finlayson, 23 år, var søn af John Herbert McWilliam Finlayson og Hilda Kathleen Finlayson (f. Benton), Opoho, Dunedin, Otago,
New Zealand. Hans navn er på Panel 27 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav.
(Kilde: CWGC) 6 flyvere.

On 24 October 1940 WEL P9292 crashed into the sea during a bombing raid on Berlin. All of the crew perished.

The body of F. B. Cleak was found washed ashore on Fanø (which is here). He was buried in Esbjerg on 12 December 1940.

A British trawler retrieved the body of P/O Finlayson who was buried at sea. 4 airmen have no known grave. (Source: FAF)

Pilot Officer William John Finlayson, 23, was the son of John Herbert McWilliam Finlayson and Hilda Kathleen Finlayson (née Benton), of Opoho, Dunedin,
Otago, New Zealand. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 27, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)

See Bomber Command No. 75 Squadron and No. 75 Squadron RNZAF.  75(nz)squadron has more.
75 Squadron Association NZ + UK * Wellington Ic AA- took off from RAF Mildenhall. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)

6 airmen.