LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer John Romer HENNINGHAM
Service No: 413194
Born: Burwood NSW, 28 May 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 August 1941
Unit: No 576 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Elsham Wolds
Died: Air Operations: (No. 576 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND416), Germany, 6 January 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert William and Mercy Adelaide Henningham, of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 123, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 5/6th January 1944, Lancaster ND416 took off from Elsham Wolds detailed to bomb Stettin, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. ND416 was believed to have crashed at Pasewalk, a large town 36 kms west north west of Stettin and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of ND416 were:
Sergeant Arthur Stanley Baker (1397018) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Frederick Fisher Barton (1385704) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant John Leslie Colbourne (956180) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Arthur Sydney Davis (1388248) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer John Romer Henningham (413194) (Pilot)
Sergeant James Edward Kennison (523674) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Frederick John Wright (1339143) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
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, 163/121/151