LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Allan Harold HANSON
Service No: 404584
Born: Ayr QLD, 31 August 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1940
Unit: No. 14 Operational Training Unit (RAF), Detachment RAF Station Saltby, Leicestershire
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 14 Operational Training Unit Hampden aircraft L4110), Leicestershire, 8 March 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Cottesmore (St Nicholas) Churchyard Extension, Rutland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Hans Victor and Annie Victoria Hanson of Ayr, Queensland; husband of Grace Margaret Hanson, of Home Hill, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Ayr QLD
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 8 March 1942 Hampden L4110 took off from RAF Saltby for night bombing practice. The aircraft came down at high speed in level flight, with wheels and flaps extended, and hit the ground at 2204 hours, some two miles north west of the airfield. On impact, the nose compartment was shattered, after which the bomber flipped over, the engine mountings and wings being sheared off. In a crew of four two were killed and two were injured.
The crew members of L4110 were:
Sergeant Allan Harold Hanson (404584) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Ernest Roy Lumsdaine (402372) Slightly Injured, Killed in an Aircraft Accident: 6 January 1944
Sergeant John Franklin MacPhail (R/91524) (RCAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Frank Wellington (404436) Slightly Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 January 1948
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/120/394