Bertie Henington's Biography
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Bertie Henington's Biography
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A brief biography of Bertie.
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SUMMARY OF INFORMATION
NAME: ALBERT JOHN MAURICE (BERTIE) HENINGTON
LAST RANK: FLIGHT LIEUTENANT (RAF)
AIRCREW ROLE: NAVIGATOR
SERVICE NUMBER: GB 154960
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 2 March 1920; 8 Iffley Road, Hammersmith, London
NAME OF WIFE: Enid May Harding
DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE: 18th August 1945; Horncastle, Lincolnshire
DATE OF DEATH: 4th March 1968
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Albert John Maurice Henington (Dad & called Bertie) was the only child of Albert James Henington (Pops) and Ethel May Henington (Nee Churchill) and was brought up in Iffley Road, Hammersmith with his parents.
His father was an automobile and aeronautical engineer who also had an Aviator's Certificate (No 086) from the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom. Much of his engineering took place at Iffley Road and at a London Bentley garage, and he was involved in racing Bentleys at Brooklands. I understand that he assembled the first Anzani rotary aero engine in the United Kingdom. He found a Gaillerdet veteran car on a local refuse dump and restored it to working condition. This is now in the Lakeland Motor Museum. He was made an Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1940.
Bertie had a normal secondary education for that time but learned aeronautical and automobile engineering from his father, and became an instrumentation designer. In the autumn of 1943 he joined the RAF as a trainee navigator and was sent to Canada for training.
His service history is detailed in the other attached documents and computer files.
After his demobilisation in the summer of 1946 he settled in Slough, Buckinghamshire with his wife Enid, and like many of his associates, found difficulty in establishing himself in a civilian career to support his young family. Not daunted he taught himself to weave and sew carpets, rugs and clothes for selling, made wooden toys for his 3 children (Tim, Judy and Paul), and built a sailing boat from scratch for family breaks. He worked for AWE, Technicolour, a catering company, and then became a management consultant before he sadly died at the age of 48 of a brain haemorrhage just before his eldest son was commissioned in the RAF as an engineering officer.
NAME: ALBERT JOHN MAURICE (BERTIE) HENINGTON
LAST RANK: FLIGHT LIEUTENANT (RAF)
AIRCREW ROLE: NAVIGATOR
SERVICE NUMBER: GB 154960
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 2 March 1920; 8 Iffley Road, Hammersmith, London
NAME OF WIFE: Enid May Harding
DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE: 18th August 1945; Horncastle, Lincolnshire
DATE OF DEATH: 4th March 1968
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Albert John Maurice Henington (Dad & called Bertie) was the only child of Albert James Henington (Pops) and Ethel May Henington (Nee Churchill) and was brought up in Iffley Road, Hammersmith with his parents.
His father was an automobile and aeronautical engineer who also had an Aviator's Certificate (No 086) from the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom. Much of his engineering took place at Iffley Road and at a London Bentley garage, and he was involved in racing Bentleys at Brooklands. I understand that he assembled the first Anzani rotary aero engine in the United Kingdom. He found a Gaillerdet veteran car on a local refuse dump and restored it to working condition. This is now in the Lakeland Motor Museum. He was made an Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1940.
Bertie had a normal secondary education for that time but learned aeronautical and automobile engineering from his father, and became an instrumentation designer. In the autumn of 1943 he joined the RAF as a trainee navigator and was sent to Canada for training.
His service history is detailed in the other attached documents and computer files.
After his demobilisation in the summer of 1946 he settled in Slough, Buckinghamshire with his wife Enid, and like many of his associates, found difficulty in establishing himself in a civilian career to support his young family. Not daunted he taught himself to weave and sew carpets, rugs and clothes for selling, made wooden toys for his 3 children (Tim, Judy and Paul), and built a sailing boat from scratch for family breaks. He worked for AWE, Technicolour, a catering company, and then became a management consultant before he sadly died at the age of 48 of a brain haemorrhage just before his eldest son was commissioned in the RAF as an engineering officer.
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“Bertie Henington's Biography,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed May 15, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/41097.
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