Heslop’s Local Advertiser 18/01/1947
Sgt. Henderson was serving with 103 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster III JB487 PM-G which took off from Elsham Wolds on a mission to Berlin. It was hit by flak and crashed. Sgt. Henderson was the only crew member killed, the other six were made prisoners of war.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Heslop’s Local Advertiser 18/01/1947 carries an In Memoriam notice which reads:
“Henderson – 7 Thorneygarth, Felling, Thomas Cook, Sgt. Air Gunner, R.A.F.V.R., killed on active service on Dec. 29th-30th, 1945.
