King, Henry
Personal Information
Rank | Sgt |
Forename(s) | Henry |
Surname | King |
Gender | M |
Age | 29 |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 10-08-1943 |
Next of Kin | Son of James and Harriet King. Husband of Isabella King, of Carluke, Lanarkshire. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Handley Page Halifax II |
Serial Number | HR872 |
Markings | LQ-K |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Belgium |
Burial/Memorial Place | Florennes Communal Cemetery |
Grave Reference | Row 5. Coll. grave 63-65. |
Epitaph | BELOVED HUSBAND OF ISABEL HOWITT, AND SON OF J. AND H.C. KING, WISHAW, SCOTLAND |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 194 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 1025718 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 8 |
Squadron | 405 (Vancouver) |
Trade | WOp/AG |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | N803 Les Fermes, Awenne (Saint-Hubert), Luxembourg Province |
Country | Belgium |
Memorial Type | Memorial shrine, memorial stone and inscribed stone tablet, info board and Canadian Maple Leaf tree |
Memorial Text | En memoire de K. GRAY – H. KING – D. BLACK – J. EVANS – A. MIDDLETON – Ch. PICKERING – J. HANNA, Halifax HR 872 LQ-K, 405e Escadron de la RCAF – 10 aout 1943, “Ils ont sacrifie leur aujourd’hui pour nos lendemains de liberte” “They sacrificed their presen |
Location | Adjacent to Village Windmill, Mill Rd, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone with inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Remembering 405 (Vancouver) Sqn. PFF at Gransden Lodge 1942 - 1945 |
Location | St. Bartholomew's Church, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stained Glass Window, RoH and inscribed metal plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating the 801 airmen of 405 Sqn. RCAF who gave their lives 1941 - 1945 |
Location | Pocklington Gliding Club, Pocklington Airfield, East Yorkshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Marble Pillar and inscribed metal plaque |
Memorial Text | In memory of 102 (Ceylon) and 405 (Vancouver) Sqns. Pocklington Airfield |
Miscellaneous Information
F/S Gray and F/O Middleton were from Medicine Hat, in Alberta and presumably joined up together |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1788/16 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/1788/15 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 09-08-1943 |
End Date | 10-08-1943 |
Takeoff Station | Gransden Lodge |
Day/Night Raid | Night (59% moon) |
Operation | Mannheim. 457 aircraft, 9 losses (2.0%). Cloud cover meant that the target marking plan didn't work out and bombing was scattered as a result. Nevertheless, much damage was caused with 1316 buildings destroyed or rendered useless and 42 industrial premises suffered loss of production, filing compensation claims for over £4M. |
Reason for Loss | Short down by a night-fighter and crashed NW of St Hubert, Belgium |