G. H. D. Higgins                                                                                       Updated: 09 MAY 2021

Airman: e777501.htm Surname: Higgins Init: GHD Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 78

P_link: p097.htm Plane: HAL W1233 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d110842 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN

Kl. 21.39 den 11. august 1942 lettede HAL W1233 fra RAF Middleton St. George på bombetogt mod Mainz.

Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p097MACR)

J. F. Myrick blev begravet i Esbjerg den 27. september 1942. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Graham Henry David Higgins, 28 år, var søn af Dr. John Higgins og Margaret Elizabeth Higgins, Miles, Queensland, Australia.
Hans navn er på Panel 111 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere, der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)

Han var Navigator på HAL W1233. (Kilde: MACR)

1 flyver fra HAL W1233 blev begravet i Esbjerg. 6 flyvere har ingen kendt grav.
Se Halifax Print og folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission. 7 flyvere.

At 21.39 on 11 August 1942 HAL W1233 took off from RAF Middleton St. George on a bombing raid targeting Mainz.
It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors.(Source: p097MACR)

J. F. Myrick was buried in Esbjerg on 27 September 1942. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Graham Henry David Higgins, 28, was the son of Dr. John Higgins and Margaret Elizabeth Higgins, of Miles, Queensland, Australia.
He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Panel 111, among more than 20,000 airmen who have no known grave. (Source: CWGC)
He was the Navigator of HAL W1233. (Source: MACR) Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 181.

1 airman from HAL W1233 was buried in Esbjerg. 6 airmen have no known grave.

No. 78 Squadron RAFHalifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum * Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019
Halifax II W1233 EY-W
took off from  RAF Middleton St. George at 21.39 hrs on 11 AUG 1942. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this + Archive Report.)
 7 airmen.