A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC Headstones -
- Sandown Cemetery : F C Hentsch -

Location

In Sandown Cemetery, Sandown, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional inscription on family headstone.

Flying officer Hentsch is commemorated at Sandown War Memorial.

Headstone

Sandown Cemetery : F C Hentsch
photograph by John Bloodworth
Inscription


IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND
CHARLES FREDERICK HENTSCH
WHO PASSED AWAY MAY 2ND 1948 AGED 77 YEARS.
AND OUR BELOVED ELDEST SON
FREDERICK CHARLES HENTSCH
FLYING OFFICER (PILOT) R.A.F.V.R. BOMBER COMMAND
KILLED IN ACTION RETURNING FROM OPERATIONS OVER BERLIN
MARCH 28TH 1944 AGED 30 YEARS
INTERRED IN BRITISH MILITARY CEMETERY, REICHSWALD FOREST, GERMANY
ALSO OF
MABEL SARAH HENTSCH
WIFE OF THE ABOVE CHARLES FREDERICK HENTSCH
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 15TH 1974 AGED 90 YEARS.


 
Further Information

Service details

Flight Officer 148014 F C Hentsch, (Pilot), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

Date of Death :24/5th March 1944 aged 30
Where buried or commemorated :Reichswald Forest War Cemetery
Aircraft :Avro Lancaster Mk.III ND650 PN-Y of 12 Sqn
Crew
Pilot :F/O F C Hentsch CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :Sgt R M Cringle CWGC record ...
Wireless Operator :Sgt E Birch CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :F/O D R Wimlett CWGC record ...
:P/O C Rudy, RCAF
:Sgt A C Summers
:Sgt A J Keveren


The aircraft took off at 18:39 hrs from RAF Wickenby for Ops on Berlin. On the homeward journey, and well south of track over Duisburg, the aircraft nose was hit by flak, setting it on fire. The crew abandoned the aircraft soon after, and the aircraft crashed at Geldern-Veert.
Four crew members died; Hentsch, Cringle, Birch and Wimlett.
Two crew members were taken prisoner; Rudy and Summers; while Keveren evaded capture and escaped via Holland to England.

Flt Officer Hentsch is remembered on his father's headstone at Sandown Cemetery. It is presumed that his parents moved to the Isle of Wight.

Information and photograph provided by : John Bloodworth


 


 
 

 
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