Name
Horace William Biggs
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1942
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Lieutenant
45371
Royal Air Force
418 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAIDSTONE CEMETERY, KENT
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 45371 and he was attached to 418 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron. At the time of his death the Squadron was based at Bradwell Bay in Essex and flying Boston IIIs. He was Mentioned in Despatches. Six Bostons bombed Dunkirk Docks on the date of his death, but the aircraft seem to have returned.
He was buried in Plot C.C. I, Grave 43 in Maidstone Cemetery, Kent. He was the son of Tom and Fanny Margaret Ann Biggs and husband of May Eleanor Biggs of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Bomber Command Diaries’ by M. Middlebrook & C. Everitt, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford
