Photo: Dorothy Hall
3040593 Sergeant
H.S. Emery
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
20th November 1944 age 19
He died that we may live
Ever remembered
By father and mother
Sister and brothers
Sgt. Emery was serving with 1656 H.C.U. He was a crew member of Halifax II BB254 which took off from Lindholm on a night navigation training exercise. It failed to climb and crashed into gable end of a house in Hatfield and then into a poultry farm. It is thought that the flaps were raised instead of the undercarriage. Five were killed and two injured.
Bomber Command H.C.U. 1939-1947Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses: Vol. 8; Heavy Conversion Units and Miscellaneous Units, 1939-1947;W.R. Chorley; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 156 3
