LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Lindsay Thomas HUTCHISON
Service No: 402239
Born: Glebe Point NSW, 12 October 1915
Enlisted in the RAAF: 22 July 1940
Unit: No. 57 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Feltwell
Died: Air Operations: (No. 57 Squadron Wellington aircraft W5434), Nottinghamshire, 3 September 1941, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Whittlesford (Saints Mary and Andrew) Churchyard, Cambridgeshire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry Alexander and Minnie Jane Hutchison, of Harbord, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Manly NSW
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Manly ANZAC War Memorial, Manly NSW
At 2025 hours on the night of 2 September 1941, Wellington W5434 took off from Feltwell detailed to bomb Frankfurt, Germany. On return from the mission the aircraft crashed at 0320 hours after hitting a house in Bar Lane, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. At the time visibility was poor and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of W5434 were:
Sergeant Francis Kenneth Crossley (925452) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Sergeant Lindsay Thomas Hutchison (402239) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Lloyd Theodore Lawson (R/58836) (RCAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Forbes McNeill (1058392) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Donald Enright Soles (R/64339) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Augustin Charles Turgeon (R/60667) (RCAF) (Wireless 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, 163/124/73
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line