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M.R. HENDERSON.
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airfield of Oakley, where he crewed up and completed his training as navigator of Wellington bomber aircraft. On the 5th November he procceeded to No. 1657 Conversion Unit, Stradishall, Suffolk, for conversion to Stirling aircraft, and on the 1st January, 1944, was posted to No. 75 (NZ) Squadron at Mepal, Cambridgeshire. With this squadron, as navigator of Stirling bomber aircraft, he took part in 14 operational flights, being special supply dropping missions over enemy occupied territory and minelaying operations to Kiel Bay (2) and Heligoland, in Germany; La Rochelle (2), Morlaix, Bayonne and St. Malo in France. Late in March, 1944, he converted to Lancaster bomber aircraft at the Lancaster Finishing School, Feltwell, Norfolk, and as navigator of Lancaster aircraft, took part in 1 operational flight.

F/Sgt. Henderson was the navigator of a Lancaster bomber aircraft engaged during the night of the 27/28th April, 1944, in bombing Friederichshaven, in Germany. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew, including F/Sgt. Henderson were classified as missing. Information was received through the International Red Cross Commitee that one of the members of the crew had lost his life and another member of the crew, W/O K.A. Smith, had been reclassified to missing, believed killed in action. In due course the death of F/Sgt. Henderson was presumed to have occurred on the 28th April, 1944.

5/2/13771 AS2.
439 hrs. as navigator.

Mr. M.C. Henderson (F) (right aligned)
10 Ross Street, (right aligned)
DUNEDIN. (right aligned & underlined)