Personnel Index - Detail

Name
HENDRIE
First Names
Alexander Rae
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
981680
Crew Position
Flight Engineer
Age
22
Date of Death
12/10/1942
Cemetery

 

His mother and father were from Motherwell, Scotland.

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
From the panel at Runnymede


Image via Ashley Hales.
 

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

12/13 October, 1942; WISMAR:

The scheduled 'Dixon Exercise' automatically cancelled when Group came on the 'blower' requesting 10 aircraft for an attack on Wismar town and the Dornier factory. The squadron climbed away from Scampton to join other 5 Group Lancasters en route for Wismar. Despite the very dark night and bad visibility this moderate force started several fires within the target area. Two crews failed to return, and one was the unfortunate 49 Squadron crew piloted by 21 year-old F/O Richard Elliott (W4116). Their Lancaster came down in the sea, and sadly the crews bodies were never recovered; they are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.

Lancaster W4116
F/O R.F. Elliott Pilot (Missing)
Sgt A.R. Hendrie RAF F/E (Missing)
P/O G.L. Laidlaw RAAF NAV (Missing)
F/S W.C.H. Ross RAAF W/OP (Missing)
Sgt G. Hodge A/G (Missing)
F/S J.K. Cullen RAAF A/B (Missing)
F/O J.W.B. Horne A/G (Missing)
 

Cause of loss:.......Nachtjagd Combat Archives - The Early Years Part 3 - Theo Boiten........via John Jones.

Hit by 3/Vers Battery F.A.S. Rerik and 7/Lehr Battery F.A.S. Rerik.
Crashed in Lübecker Bight near Rerik at 21:56hrs.
(FAS = Flak Artrilllerie Schule......based at Rerik, west of Rostock)