JOHN FRANCIS KINGHORN (418281)
460 SQUADRON RAAF

Mission List for John Francis Kinghorn

Subject:     460 Squadron photos
Date:              Mon, 21 May 2001 13:12:49 +1000
From:            "Sally Kinghorn" <sally.kinghorn@wdhs.net>

Hello - my name is Sally Kinghorn and my father was John Francis Kinghorn (WO 418281). Dad was a rear gunner with the 460 Squadron. Attached please find 9 photographs and also a jpg file of dad taken about four years before he died (2.12.97). I thought they maybe of interest to you.

Sally

One operation with J.K. Douglas

D13 Douglas J K - 1944                                                6 Ops
(P2)s 18/7/44 Reid E F,30/6/44 Jarrett G T,14/8/44 Spier(NC).
   3/8/44 Hit by groundfire.
---------------
(E) Bardon A T
(B) Paton H M
(N) Rob W D
(W) Edmonds J S
(G) Kinghorn J F
(G) Statham R C

Two operations with L. Petney

Petney L - 1944 -                                                29 Ops
(P2) 21/5/44 Tomlinson R,18/3/44 Lloyd N D.
28/1/44 Aircraft flipped over by slipstream of another Lancaster.

----------------------
(E) Wood M
(B) Mildred A J
(N) King A G
(W) Falconer D M
(G) Statham R C
(G) Kinghorn J F

27 Operations with R. Tomlinson

T08 Tomlinson R-1944-                                      (See P10) 30 Ops
(P2)s 4/7/44 Carr R L, 12/7/44 Murray J K, 18/7/44 Lester P L.
   19/6/44 Beat off attack by Me110.
--------------
(E) Brown A W      Brown A W
(B) Paton H M      Paton H M
(N) Rob W D        Rob W D
(W) Edmonds J S    Dillon J M
(G) Statham R C    Statham R C
(G) Kinghorn J F   Kinghorn J F
          23Opns         4 Opns

	Rear L to R: Roy Tomlinson (Skipper), "His Lordship" John Kinghorn (Rear Gunner) Front L to R: Jack Edmonds (Wireless Operator), Wally Rob (Navigator), Herb Paton (Bomb-Aimer Front Gunner)
	Curly Wishart (Binbrook, May - September 1944)
	Tail End Charlie J2 (Binbrook, May - September 1944)
	Ray - our mid-upper gunner (Binbrook, May - September 1944)
	Average Bomb Load (Binbrook, May - September 1944)
	J2 and her full score (Binbrook, May - September 1944)
	"C" Flight 460 Squadron, Binbrook "Only Birds and Fools fly, and the Birds don't"
	"C" Flight 460 Squadron, Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England "Fly at night" - Shakespeare wrote the first half
	Ligescourt - V1 Launching base bombed
	George, Curly, Jock, Bert - Our Ground Crew
	At Binbrook, Lincolnshire
	John Kinghorn
	John Kinghorn
	John Kinghorn 2 December 1997
	Tomlinson's Circus at Sandtoft L to R: John Kinghorn (rear gunner, Byaduk, Vic), Jack Edmonds (Wireless Operator, Sydney), Arthur Brown (Skipper, Chinchilla, Qld), Wally Rob (Navigator, Northampton, WA), Ray Statham (Mid gunner, Manchester, England), Herb Paton (bomb-aimer, Launceston, Tas)
	L to R: Arthur Brown, Ray Statham, Jack Edmonds, John Kinghorn

Can anyone help with more information?

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

This page first produced 24 May 2001

This page last updated 19 February 2020