Personnel Index - Detail

Name
ALDRIDGE
First Names
Horace
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
950520
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Age
23
Date of Death
06/07/1941
Cemetery

 

From the panel at Runnymede (photographed by Malcolm Brooke)
From the panel at Runnymede

The Runnymede image was created by artist Paul Reid using photographs taken by Jo Cockburn and Malcolm Brooke

BREST:
Although the night was clear and cloudless, smoke-screens in the
target area prevented accurate bombing of the German warships, as 88 Hampdens and 21 Wellingtons passed over Brest.
P/O Henderson and crew are believed to have crashed in the sea, the victims of flak.
Hampden AD739 (EA-A)
P/O A.J. Henderson Pilot (Missing)
F/S I.M. Fisher (Missing)
Flt Sgt H. Aldridge (Missing)
F/S K. Coney (Missing)