Roderick Finlayson was the pilot of a 40 Squadron Vickers Wellington which took off on the night of the 11th of May to bomb the German city of Hamburg. His plane was shot down into the North Sea by a German night fighter at 1.40am. Three bodies floated ashore to the German coast and were buried in Kiel Cemetery. Roderick was 23 and had survived 27 operations.
AIR FORCE CASUALTIES
Sergeant Roderick William Finlayson, R.N.Z.A.F., previously reported missing, death now officially presumed by the Air Ministry to have occurred in May. -Otago Daily Times, 3/9/1941.
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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