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212492

Sgt. Norman Fotheringham

Royal Air Force 101 Squadron

from:Alva, Scotland

(d.24th June 1943)

War Memorial in the Johnstone Park of Alva, Clackmannanshire in Scotland

I have spent a few years researching my uncle - Sgt Norman Fotheringham (an air gunner I believe) who flew with 101 Squadron (Lancaster III W4311 SR-O) when he and the other air crew were lost over Wuppertal in Germany on night of June 23/24 1943. I believe they flew out of Ludford Magna airfield in Lincolnshire. I believe he was a mid-upper gunner on W4311. He and 4 of his crew mates are buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

  • Sergeant J.E.W.Lane (Pilot)
  • Sergeant R.W.Ridgley
  • Sergeant T.W.Connor
  • Sergeant S.F.Barker
  • Sergeant S.E.Williams
  • Sergeant N.Fotheringham (mid upper gunner)
  • Sergeant A.Twohy
Information from www.lostaircraft.com: This aircraft was one of 450 Manchesters ordered from A.V.Roe (Chadderton) Jan40 of which 207 were built as Lancaster Mk.1s, delivered from Jul42 to Nov42 initially fitted with merlin 20 engines.

W4311 was delivered to 101 Sqdn Oct42. W4311 wore the ID's SR-F/O W4311 took part in the following Key Operations:

  • As SR-F, Stuttgart 22/23Nov42;
  • Turin 28/29Nov42;
  • Frankfurt 2/3Dec4;
  • Mannheim 6/7Dec42;
  • Turin 11/12Dec42;
  • Duisberg 20/21Dec42;
  • Munich 21/22Dec43;
  • (Aircraft attacked and badly damaged by Bf110 - 180 bullet holes in the airframe).
  • As SR-O, Dortmund 23/24May43;
  • Dusseldorf 25/26May43;
  • Dusseldorf 11/12Jun43-aborted;
  • Wuppertal 24/25Jun43-Lost. When lost this aircraft had a total of 98 hours.
  • Airborne 2241 24Jun43 from Ludford Magna. Shot down by a night- fighter (Maj G_nter Radusch, 1./NJG1) and crashed 0140 25Jun43 near Grubbenvorst (Limburg), on the W bank of the Maas, 6 km NNW of Venlo, Holland, where all were buried in the town's temporary Militiary Cemetery.

They have been subsequently re-interred in the Jonkerboos War Cemetery and Sgt Williams is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. My uncle Norman is commemorated on the War Memorial in the Johnstone Park of Alva, Clackmannanshire in Scotland.

I am looking for any information, photographs of the uncle I never met, of whom I am so proud and indebted - any pictures especially of him, of W4311, the crew, the airfield, etc. Many thanks if anyone can point me in the direction.



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