LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Ian Ignatius FRIEND
From Australia serving in the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Service No: 404350 (RNZAF)
Born: Sydney NSW, 16 August 1915
Enlisted in the RNZAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 218 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Downham Market
Died: Air Operations: (No. 218 Squadron Stirling I aircraft W7475), Germany, 9 November 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Hanover War Cemetery
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edward Friend and Frances Friend (nee Rawson), of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
A 1755 hours on 9 November 1942 Stirling W7475 took off from Downham Market to attack Hamburg, Germany. The aircraft crashed at Lashorst and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of W7475 were:
Sergeant Henry William Bending (1500475) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Ronald William Arthur Follett (1293633) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Ian Ignatius Friend (404350) (RNZAF) (Observer)
Squadron Leader Peter Frank Hickling DFM (68134) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Vivian Howe (1184247) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Wynne Morgan (411088) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Adam Haddon Thomson DFM (41612) (RNZAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 3 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1942, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1994
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records