DAMBUSTERS Honig, Herbert Walter

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Honig ​

• FORENAME

Herbert Walter ​

• UNIT

617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. ​

• RANK

Flying Officer ​

• NUMBER

151110 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

7th October 1944 ​

• AGE

22 ​

• GRAVESITE

Durnbach War Cemetery,Germany 5.C.10 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of Herbert George and Mabel Honig,Wimbledon,Surrey​

air bomber​

Lancaster NG180​

Kembs Dam,River Rhine,Germany​

hit by flak and crashed landed River Rhine near Chalampe,Haut-Rhin,France​

POW but shot by Germans and body thrown in River Rhine - recovered ​