Letter to Mrs Davies regarding James Davies
Title
Letter to Mrs Davies regarding James Davies
Description
A letter from the Air Ministry regarding the location of a cemetery in which James is buried.
Date
1949-10-13
Language
Format
One envelope and one single sided letter
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Contributor
Identifier
ELivingtonAWDaviesM491013-0001; ELivingtonAWDaviesM491013-0002; ELivingtonAWDaviesM491013-0003
Transcription
On His Majesty’s Service
[postmark]
Mrs. M. Davies,
40, Argoed,
Penygraid,
Brymbo,
Wrexham,
S. Wales
[page break]
[Air Ministry letterhead]
P.413163/44/s.14 Cas.,A.1.
13th October, 1949
Dear Mrs Davies,
It is with great regret that I refer again, after so long an interval, to the loss in action of your son Sergeant James Davies, but I am sure you will wish to know the result of investigations undertaken by the Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Service in Germany.
The search officers have located in the cemetery at Luttgendosse-Fretzdorf the graves of the seven members of the crew, but unfortunately, six members of another crew who lost their lives on the following night, had been buried with them, and only one, a Sergeant McLean, could be individually identified. The other twelve have been therefore been re-interred in a in a communal group of graves numbered 1-4, Row k, Plot 9 in the British Military Cemetery at Berlin (Heerstrasse), and these graves have been registered collectively with the Imperial War Graves Commission in the names of all twelve airmen including Sergeant Davis. Sergeant Mclean lies in an adjacent grave.
This reburial is in accordance with the policy agreed upon by His Majesty’s and the Commonwealth Governments, that our fallen should be transferred to specially selected military cemeteries, where the graves will be maintained, for all time, by the Imperial War Graves Commission.
I am sorry that, owing to the formidable task of our search teams, it has not ben possible to let yo have this information earlier, but I do hope this news, belated as it is, will afford you as a measure of comfort in your sad loss.
Yours sincerely,
[Signature]
Mrs. M. Davies,
40, Argoed,
Penygraid,
Brymbo,
Wrexham,
S. Wales
[postmark]
Mrs. M. Davies,
40, Argoed,
Penygraid,
Brymbo,
Wrexham,
S. Wales
[page break]
[Air Ministry letterhead]
P.413163/44/s.14 Cas.,A.1.
13th October, 1949
Dear Mrs Davies,
It is with great regret that I refer again, after so long an interval, to the loss in action of your son Sergeant James Davies, but I am sure you will wish to know the result of investigations undertaken by the Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Service in Germany.
The search officers have located in the cemetery at Luttgendosse-Fretzdorf the graves of the seven members of the crew, but unfortunately, six members of another crew who lost their lives on the following night, had been buried with them, and only one, a Sergeant McLean, could be individually identified. The other twelve have been therefore been re-interred in a in a communal group of graves numbered 1-4, Row k, Plot 9 in the British Military Cemetery at Berlin (Heerstrasse), and these graves have been registered collectively with the Imperial War Graves Commission in the names of all twelve airmen including Sergeant Davis. Sergeant Mclean lies in an adjacent grave.
This reburial is in accordance with the policy agreed upon by His Majesty’s and the Commonwealth Governments, that our fallen should be transferred to specially selected military cemeteries, where the graves will be maintained, for all time, by the Imperial War Graves Commission.
I am sorry that, owing to the formidable task of our search teams, it has not ben possible to let yo have this information earlier, but I do hope this news, belated as it is, will afford you as a measure of comfort in your sad loss.
Yours sincerely,
[Signature]
Mrs. M. Davies,
40, Argoed,
Penygraid,
Brymbo,
Wrexham,
S. Wales
Collection
Citation
“Letter to Mrs Davies regarding James Davies,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 17, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/61750.