LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Henry Edward LAMBOURNE
Service No: 421428
Born: Nelsons Bay NSW, 9 February 1922
Enlisted in the RAAF: 1 February 1942
Unit: No. 199 Squadron (RAF), RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk
Died: Air Operations: (No. 199 Squadron Stirling aircraft EF271), France, 16 February 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Mazargues War Cemetery, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Alfred Ernest and Amy Lambourne, of Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Stirling EF271 took off from RAF Lakenheath at 2305 hours on the night of 15 February 1944, detailed to carry out a mission of cooperation with the Free French forces of the Interior. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Vergt in the Dordogne, 22 kms south of Perigneux, and all the crew members were killed
The crew members of EF271 were:
Sergeant Gerrard Caine (1525642) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer James Alexander Jackson (127619) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Henry Edward Lambourne (421428) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Kevin Alphonsus Robinson (416614) (Pilot)
Sergeant Ronald Stubbings (1577911) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Arnold Whimpenney (2216127) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Sergeant Reginald Alfred Williams (649053) (RAF) (Flight Engineer)
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/24/185