Lloyd Higgs Eno

Squadron Leader Lloyd Eno was a 1936 graduate of Moncton High School. Eno was born at Marysville but called Gunningsville home. Lloyd's parents Harrison and Pearl Eno ran a grocery store at the southwest corner of the Gunningsville Bridge approach. At an early age, Lloyd journeyed to England where he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. 

Lloyd Eno held the Distinguished Service Order, the Distinguished flying Cross and had been mentioned in dispatches, all considerable military honours. The Royal Air Force pilot served the first year of the war flying a Whitley bomber, an aircraft used for hunting U-boats. Later, as a Lancaster pilot, he was on his third tour of operations and had completed more than 60 trips over enemy territory.

His final posting was to 51 Sqn, RAF Snaith, nr Goole, 4 Group Bomber Command.  He was posted there on the 5th of September 1943.  He flew 15 operational missions on Halifax Mark 11s and later Mark 111s until he was shot down by flak over Stuttgart on the 15th of March 1944.  The only crew members to survive were the navigator and the 2nd pilot on this battle experience operation, they bailed out to become prisoners of war.  The second pilot, Sgt. MB Carroll, reported they were hit by flak over the target towards the rear if the aircraft and this took away most of the flight controls.  There was nothing the pilot could do and shortly afterwards the aircraft started to spin.  S/L Eno is buried in the Durnbach Military Cementary, Gmund, Bavario, alongside the other five members of the crew who parished in the crash.

He was survived by his parents and his wife, Jean, of Hessle, Yorkshire, England.