F/Lt Ray (Hindoo) Henderson

[Andy Long]

I'm in the process of completing a book on the biographies of several fighter pilots from my locality, and I see on this excellent site we have many Italian historians and researchers.

One of the biographies is about F/Lt William Raymond (Hindoo) Henderson, who served with 602 Sqn in the UK, before departing to North Africa via Cyprus with 213. He had a short spell attached to 73 Sqn, before becoming tour expired and spent a short while on ferry duties. He the joined 92 Sqn, and went to 601 as a flight commander in January 1944.

He was shot down and killed on March 7th 1944, by Siegfried Lemke of JG2 near Cori, and his body wasn't found until 1947. On his last flight he was flying Spitfire VIII JF806, and I was wondering if any of our Italian friends had found the site. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated in finishing the chapter off.