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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
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Sources: WWII Service Records Commonwealth War Grave Commission Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave
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(photo: Haakon Vinje, Norwegian War Graves Service)