Sergeant Air Gunner John Moorby REED. Royal Air Force (VR) attached to 405 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force aged 22 and the other five crew members of Wellington W5527 died 2nd August 1941. Son of Thomas Edgar and Dorothy Reed, of Nelson, Lancashire.
Except for Sergeant McKENZIE who is buried the remainder are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
The other five crew members are as follows.
Pilot Officer J4764 Andrew Owen LEARMONTH. Royal Canadian Air Force. Born 17th April 1917 killed 2nd August 1941
Pilot Officer 402355 John Reed HORN Royal Australian Air Force died aged 24. Son of Henry William Charles and Valerie Adele Horn, of Double Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
Pilot Officer, Pilot 64874 Reginald COX. Royal Air Force VR died aged 25. Son of George Edward and Maud Smedley Cox, husband of Una Dorothy Cox, of Riddings, Derbyshire. B.Sc., Hons.
Flight Sergeant 971203 Ronald Mason THOMAS died aged 21. Son of Trevelyn and Lorna Thomas, of Hafod, Swansea.
Burial
Sergeant Air Gunner 1116548 Henry Bruce McKENZIE. Royal Air Force. His body was washed ashore at Husby on 23 August 1941. At rest in Lemvig Cemetery, Denmark.
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This memorial plaque is at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Credit extract by Alan Storr.
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RAAF PERSONNEL SERVING ON ATTACHMENT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SQUADRONS AND SUPPORT UNITS IN WORLD WAR 2 AND MISSING WITH NO KNOWN GRAVE.
402355 Pilot Officer HORN, John Read
Source:
NAA: A705, 1633/36/96
Aircraft Type: Wellington Serial number: W 5527. Unit: 405 Sqn Royal Canadian Air Force
Summary:
Lancaster W 5527 of No 405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF, took off from RAF Station Pocklington, York, at 2235 hours on the night of 2/3rd August 1941, to bomb Hannover, Germany. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return
to base.
Crew:
RCAF PO Cox, R, Captain (Pilot)
RAAF 402355 PO Horn, J R (2nd Pilot)
RAF Sgt McKenzie, H B
Names of other crew members not recorded in above Archives file.
In a 1949 report following investigations by the Missing Research and Enquiry Unit, it was established that the body of Sgt McKenzie (RAF) was washed ashore at Husby on 23 August 1941 which is on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark, approx 15 miles north of Rinkjobing. Sgt McKenzie is buried in the Vestre cemetery at Lemvig, Denmark which is 18 miles north of Husby. No trace of the remaining five crew members could be found and it was recorded that they had lost their lives at sea.
