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News Sheet No 31 June 1944
Ex-RCAF The Camp Jan 1990
Tags: 10 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 4 Group; 40 Squadron; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 424 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Dulag Luft; escaping; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; navigator; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Digby; RAF Hendon; RAF St Eval; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; strafing; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley
After the last fly-over of British planes
Tags: bombing; incendiary device
The funeral of the English airmen tragically killed in Thyon and Le Bouveret
sf 300 ED 531
7747.40
sf 553.36 per man!'
On the second…
Extracts from 'Nouvelliste Valaisan'
14 airmen were buried at Vevey and the funeral is described. There is repetition…
Tags: bombing; crash; final resting place; killed in action; shot down
Rows of graves in a cemetery
31 RAF graves. Killed on raids'.
On the reverse 'Foulks - N2.
1944 412471
F/Lt WR Esquilant AFC 37. 24/8/46
Lancaster wreckage on a Swiss hillside
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Tags: anti-aircraft fire; crash; Lancaster; shot down
Aircrew being laid to rest
Burial Service of airmen at Vevey
Swiss anti-aircraft gun
Tags: anti-aircraft fire
Airmen coffins at Vevey
Swiss anti-aircraft gun and airmen's funeral at Vevey
Photograph 2 is 14 airmen's coffins annotated 'ED412 'O' rear row ED 531 'T' front. I…
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Royal Air Force wreath at the funeral of airmen at Vevey
Airmen's funeral at Vevey
Funeral of Jack Benson
Silk escape map
Tags: evading
France, north Spain, part of Italy and Switzerland
Tags: evading