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Allan Watson Heughan
Flying Officer
J/36580
189 RAF Squadron; Royal Canadian Air Force
November 23, 1918
Halifax, Nova Scotia
May 23, 1941
Montreal, Quebec
St Lambert, Quebec
22
5 feet, 9¾ inches
Fair
Blue-Grey
Blonde
Single
Bookkeeper
Presbyterian
Robert William Heughan (Father) St. Lambert, Quebec
December 22, 1944
26
Aseral Churchyard, Norway
Coll. grave.
Commemorated on Page 334 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Allan Watson Heughan was the son of Robert William Gall Heughan (1888-1950) and Mary Highgate
(MacAulay) Haughan. His brothers, William Gordon Heughan served with the RCAF and James Haughan
served with the Canadian Army during WWII.
While born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Allan grew up in St. Lambert, Quebec where the family lived. He
attended school between 1925 and 1937 completing grade eleven. In 1938/1939 he complete a
Commercial Course in Bookkeeping and Mathematics. From 1939 until his enlistment with the RCAF,
he was employed as a payroll clerk (accounting and cost accounting) with Fairchild Aircraft in
Longueuil, Quebec.
His sports interests included hockey, tennis, golf, and swimming. He was also a member of the St
Lawrence Aircraft Flying Club.
Following enlistment in May 1941, he completed training in Canada, receiving his Air Gunners Badge
on August 28, 1942. He departed Canada for the United Kingdom on December 14, 1943, and
disembarked there on December 21st. He served with No. 14 Operational Training Unit (OTU), and
619 Squadron prior to being assigned to 189 Squadron on October 15, 1944. The squadron was
reformed on October 15, 1944, as a Lancaster bomber squadron within No.5 Group Bomber Command.
Its first operation was an attack on Homburg on November 1, 1944, and the Squadron remained part of
Bomber Command's main force to the end of the war.
On December 21, 1944, Lancaster Aircraft PB691 took off at 4:59 pm from RAF Fulbeck, Lincolnshire
with a crew of seven, including Allan Heughan serving as Mid-Upper Gunner, to attack a target at
Politz, near Stettin, an industrial centre with numerous factories, shipyard and port in Germany, and
failed to return to base. It was later determined that the aircraft crashed into a mountain north of
Eiken, Norway. There were no survivors.
The crew are buried in the Aseral Churchyard, Norway.
Donald Theodore Taylor
Sources:
WWII Service Records
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
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(photo: Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service)