LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Andrew Henry FOTHERINGHAM
Service No: 402737
Born: New Jersey USA, 27 November 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 14 October 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 1658 Conversion Unit (RAF), RAF Station Riccall
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 1658 Conversion Unit Halifax aircraft DT626), Wales, 4 January 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Henry Fotheringham, and stepson of Frances Fotheringham, of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Knox Grammar School Old Boys’ War Memorial, Wahroonga NSW
Remembered: Australia Remembers 1945-1995 Memorial, Lane Cove NSW
On the night of 3 January 1944, Halifax DT626 took off from Riccall detailed to carry out a night cross-country training exercise. At approximately 0045 hours on 4 January, the aircraft crashed with great force (having partially broken up in the air), a miles south west of Pentrefoelas about 15 miles south west of Denbigh. All the crew members were killed in the crash.
The crew members of DT626 were:
Sergeant Leonard Dowse (1484106) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Andrew Henry Fotheringham (402737) (Pilot)
Flying Officer James George MacLeod (J/22415) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Sergeant Willie Pinder (1590862) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Peter Rogerson (2209393) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant William Colin Thompson (R/162116) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Robert Henry Wright (1309782) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/14/152
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line