Date of death:

June 12th, 1943 (Giessenburg, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves General Cemetery Crooswijk
Plot: LL. Row: 1. Grave: 43.

Service number:

1335447

Nationality:

British

Navigator, Flight Sergeant Ernest Cassingham, was on June 11th, 1943 part of the crew of Handley Page Halifax JB785 (fellow crew members Pilot Officer George Racine Herbert, Sergeant R. H. Makin, Flight Sergeant Francis Greenwood, Sergeant Ronald Boone, Pilot Officer Archibald Wallace and Sergeant Frank Stewart) on a mission to Münster. At the return flight at 02.40 hrs the aircraft was shot down by Leutnant Werner Baake. The aircraft crashed at Giessenburg in the Netherlands. Pilot Officer Wallace and Sergeant Makin managed to escape with their parachute. They became POW. The other crew members were killed and buried at Crooswijk.

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