1577142, Flight Sergeant, Air Gunner, 582 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Frank was born about 1921 and was the son of Arthur Richard and Edith E HOLMES.
Frank died on 4th May 1944, aged 23. The Lancaster Mk III Bomber (ND910 code 60-F) took off from a station (airfield) in or near Little Staughton, Bedfordshire at 22:57hrs. The task was to bomb the aerodrome at Montdidier, France, but the Lancaster crashed at Beaulieu-les-Fontaines (Oise), north west of Noyon. Frank is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
The 1951 Winterton electoral register shows his parents living at 9 Queen Street.
Photos by kind permission of Robin Lingard, Curator, Elsham Wold Air Museum
Frank was born about 1921 and was the son of Arthur Richard and Edith E HOLMES.
Frank died on 4th May 1944, aged 23. The Lancaster Mk III Bomber (ND910 code 60-F) took off from a station (airfield) in or near Little Staughton, Bedfordshire at 22:57hrs. The task was to bomb the aerodrome at Montdidier, France, but the Lancaster crashed at Beaulieu-les-Fontaines (Oise), north west of Noyon. Frank is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
The 1951 Winterton electoral register shows his parents living at 9 Queen Street.
Photos by kind permission of Robin Lingard, Curator, Elsham Wold Air Museum
Frank Norman Holmes
582 Squadron Lancaster ND910 60-F
Montdidier Airfield
Took off from RAF Little Staughton at 22:57.
The aircraft is one of three aircraft that could be claimed by either of the following pilots:-
Oblt Jakob Schaus 4/NJG4 - North of Paris: 3,500m at 00:16.
Hptm Helmut Bergmann 8/NJG4 - North of Paris: 2,000m at 00:26/North of Paris: 1,000m at 00:39.
Crash near Fignières, North of Montdidier (Région Picardy)
(Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 2 - Theo Boiten)
Information courtesy of John Jones