Enlisted at the Combined Recruiting Centre (CRC), Duke’s Road, Euston, London, as Aircraftman Second Class (AC2) and mustering as Air Crew Hand (Pilot/Observer).

Transferred to the Reserve, pending call-up.

Called up to No. 1 Air Crew Reception Centre (ACRC), Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood, London.

Remustered as under training Pilot (2).

Air Crew Disposal Wing (ACDW), Metropole Hotel, Regency Square, Brighton, Sussex.

No. 21 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS), Booker, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (Airwork Ltd); presumably for pilot aptitude testing.

Tiger Moth tbc

Promoted to Leading Aircraftman (LAC).

tbc – Embarked UK for Canada (port & vessel n/k).

Disembarked Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

No. 31 (RAF) Personnel Depot, Moncton, New Brunswick, joining the Arnold scheme for pilot training in the USA.

Train to Albany, Georgia, United States.

RAF Reception Centre, Turner Field, Albany, Georgia.

Primary Flying Training, Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Georgia.

PT-17 Stearman

Pilot training discontinued and returned to No. 31 (RAF) Personnel Depot, Moncton, New Brunswick. Date TBC.

Attached to No. 4 (tbc) ITS, Edmonton Normal School, Edmonton, Alberta tbc.

Remustered as under training Observer.

No. 31 Bomber & Gunnery School (B&GS), Ontario.

Anson/Battle/Bolingbroke tbc

Remustered as under training Air Bomber.

No. 33 Air Navigation School (ANS), Mount Hope, Hamilton, Ontario.

Anson

Awarded Air Bomber brevet, promoted to Sergeant, and remustered as Air Bomber

Home Embarkation (HE); embarked Halifax Nova Scotia for the UK (vessel n/k).

Disembarked UK (port n/k).

No. 7 Personnel Reception Centre (PRC), Harrogate, Yorkshire.

No. 6 illegible; ship recognition Course.

No. 21 Operational Training Unit, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire.

Wellington

Attached to No. 3 Overseas Aircraft Delivery Unit (OADU), Hurn, Hampshire (aircraft n/k).

No. 22 Personnel Transit Camp (PTC), Almaza, Egypt
Date? – Embarked Egypt (port & vessel n/k – or possibly flew). Date? – Disembarked UK.

No. 27 Operational Training Unit (OTU), Lichfield, Staffordshire; joins J R Henningham RAAF crew.

Wellington

Promoted to Flight Sergeant

No. 11 Base, Lindholme, Yorkshire; administrative Base for 1 Group heavy bomber conversions.

No. 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit (HCU), Blyton, Lincolnshire.

Halifax

No. 1 Lancaster Finishing School (LFS), Hemswell, Lincolnshire. Date TBC.

Lancaster

Joined 576 Sqn at Elsham Wolds, Linconshire

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No. 576 Squadron, ‘A’ Flight, Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire
Ops (4): J R Henningham, RAAF crew
16 Dec 43 – Berlin; landed Waltham
29 Dec 43 – Berlin
02 Jan 44 – Berlin; abandoned mission

Lancaster

Stettin; lost in ND416 UL-G2, aged 21
Shot down near Koblenz at 0410 by Lt Wendelin Breukel of 5./NJG 2 in his Ju-88 and crashed in the village of Koblentz, near Pasewalk, some 22 miles NW Stettin. The crew were buried originally at Pasewalk Cemetery, but were reinterred on 04 Oct 47 at the Berlin (Heerstrasse) British Cemetery, Barton in Grave 14.H.6

Lancaster

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