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and Berlin (2) all in Germany and Milan (2) in Italy. He also carried out a sortie minelaying in enemy waters.

Flight Sergeant Hendry was captain of a Lancaster bomber which took off on air operations on the night of the 31st August, 1943 to attack the target of Berlin. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all members of the crew including Flight Sergeant Hendry were classified as missing. Information was received at a later date from a German source through the International Red Cross Committee that Flight Sergeant Hendry had lost his life and he was in consequence reclassified as missing believed killed. Additional information received advised he had been buried on the 3rd September, 1943 in the Evangelical Cemetery, Bramsche, Germany, and in due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 31st August, 1943.

Flight Sergeant Hendry's brother, Sergeant W.N. Hendry also lost his life serving overseas in the Air Force.

On the cessation of hostilities F/Sgt. Hendry's body was re-interred in the Reichswald Forest British Military Cemetery.

Find a Grave link with a photo of F/Sgt. Hendry: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56035052/john_lawrence-hendry

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