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Jenkinson, Peter and Leslie. Peter Jenkinson
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Fifty-three items concerning Peter Jenkinson who served as a flight engineer on 166 and 153 Squadron Lancaster and was killed with his crew on 28 January 1945. Collection contains official and family correspondence, photographs, biographies, newspaper articles, official documents, roll of honour and records of operations.
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2016-08-24
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Jenkinson, LP-PR
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[underlined] ALLIED BOMBERS SHOT DOWN BY F W GUNTHER BAHR [/underlined]
[list] [underlined] UNIT DATE AIRCRAFT TIME AREA OF COMBAT [/underlined]
3/NJG 6 23/24.8.43 HALIFAX 0040 BERLIN 3/NJG 6 23/24.8.43 STIRLING 0047 NORTH BERLIN 3/NJG 6 14.10.43 B17 1457 20 KM S.E SCHWEINFURT 3/NJG 6 18/19.10.43 LANCASTER 2043 25 KM W HAMLIN 3/NJG 6 3/4.11.43 HALIFAX 1955 25 KM W DUSSELDORF 3/NJG 6 17/18.11.43 LANCASTER 2016 HOCHSPEYER 3/NJG 6 20/21.12.43 HALIFAX 1924 SSE MAYERN 3/NJG 6 20/21.12.43 HALIFAX 1938 50 KM S.W. KOBLENZ 3/NJG 6 20/21.12.43 HALIFAX 2000 RUPPACH 3/NJG 6 30/31.1.44 LANCASTER 2010 WARWITZ 3/NJG 6 30/31.1.44 LANCASTER 2025 10 KM W ORANIENBURG 3/NJG 6 19/20.2.44 LANCASTER 0320 15-20KM SSW STENDAL 3/NJG 6 25/26.2.44 LANCASTER 2128 SE NEUFCHATAEU 3/NJG 6 26/27.4.44 LANCASTER 0245 15 KM NW KIRCHENHALL 3/NJG 6 27/28.4.44 HALIFAX 0137 30-60 KM NW FRIED’HAFEN 3/NJG 6 27/28.4.44 LANCASTER 0251 50-80 KM NW FRIED’HAFEN 1 NJG 6 28/29.7.44 LANCASTER 0208 30-50 KM FROM STUTTGART 1 NJG 6 25/26.8.44 HALIFAX 0115 W. RUSSELLHEIM 1 NJG 6 12/13.9.44 B17 2246 N.W. MANNHEIM 3/NJG 1 8/9.1.45 LANCASTER 2227 W MUNICH 3/NJG 1 8/9.1.45 LANCASTER 2230 W MUNICH 3/NJG 1 8/9.1.45 B24 2236 MUNICH 3/NJG 1 8/9.1.45 LANCASTER 2238 WNW MUNICH 3/NJG 1 28/29.1.45 LANCASTER 2329 STUTTGART 3/NJG 1 28/29.1.45 LANCASTER 2332 W STUTTGART 3/NJG 1 28/29.1.45 LANCASTER 2346 LUDWIGSBERG 3/NJG 1 28/29.1.45 LANCASTER 2359 E MANNHEIM (PETER’S) 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2037 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2039 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2042 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2044 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2046 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2050 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 21/22.2.45 HALIFAX 2034 SW WORMS 3/NJG 1 23/24.2.45 LANCASTER 2009 NEAR PFORZHEIN [sic] 3/NJG 1 16/17.3.45 LANCASTER 2131 SW NUREMBERG
DETAILS FROM “LUFTWAFFE NIGHT FIGHTER, COMBAT CLAIMS 1939-1945” [signature] 101.106
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Allied bombers shot down by FW Gunther Bahr
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Table listing unit, date, aircraft, time, area of combat. Lists 36 combats with allied aircraft from 23 August 1943 until 17 March 1945. Includes Peter Jenkinson's Lancaster on 28 January 1945 as one of four that night. Details from "Luftwaffe Night Fighter Combat Claims 1939-1945".
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One page handwritten document
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SJenkinsonPR1826262v10020
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe
United States Army Air Force
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Germany
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Hameln
Germany--Düsseldorf
Germany--Koblenz
Germany--Oranienburg
Germany--Stendal
Germany--Stuttgart
France
France--Neufchâteau
Germany--Rüsselsheim
Germany--Mannheim
Germany--Munich
Germany--Worms
Germany--Pforzheim
Germany--Nuremberg
Germany--Ruhr (Region)
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1943-08-23
1943-08-24
1943-10-14
1943-10-18
1943-10-19
1943-11-03
1943-11-04
1943-11-17
1943-11-18
1943-12-20
1943-12-21
1944-01-30
1944-01-31
1944-02-19
1944-02-20
1944-02-25
1944-02-26
1944-04-26
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1944-04-28
1944-07-28
1944-07-29
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1944-08-26
1944-09-12
1944-09-13
1945-01-08
1945-01-09
1945-01-28
1945-01-29
1944-02-21
1944-02-22
1944-02-23
1944-02-24
1945-03-16
1945-03-17
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Robin Christian
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B-17
B-24
Halifax
Lancaster
shot down
Stirling
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Fry, Harold Leonard
H L Fry
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2020-03-04
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Fry, HL
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Forty-four items and two sub-collections with twenty items. The collection concerns Harold Leonard Fry (413129 Royal Air Force) who flew as a Lancaster navigator on 467 Squadron. He was killed on operation to Berlin on 1 January 1944. Collection contains correspondence including between his father, authorities and the air ministry, documents and photographs. In addition an account of the discovery, recovery and identification of his crew and their aircraft in 1997-2003. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Barton and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">Additional information on Harold Leonard Fry </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW22772577 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108192/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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The discovery, Recovery and Identification of the
Durston Crew
and their plane
Lancaster ED867
"The Sun Herald" in Sydney, Australian, 5. August 2001
Peace at last for the lost crew of ED867
By FRANK WALKER and DANIEL OASEY
In 1944 a Lancaster bomber with four Australians aboard flew from England for
its final mission over Nazi Germany. It never came back. What happened to the
Australian airmen on ED 867 has remained a mystery. All that their families have
been told for the past 57 years is that the men were missing in action.
Until now
Thanks to the dedication of a group of German amateur historians and the
forensic detective work of Australian defence officers, the mystery of ED 867 is
close to being solved. The Germans have found the wreckage of the Lancaster
near their town of Qranienburg, 30km north of Berlin. They dug down for 3m and
found the remains of three, possibly four, crewmen still inside the wreckage of the
plane. A wing revealed the serial number: ED 867.
Australian forensic experts will soon go to Berlin to try to make final identifications
of the airmen so they can be given a marked grave and buried with full military
honours.
The Lancaster bomber of the Royal Australian Air Force's 467 Squadron, crewed
by four Australians and three British airmen, took off from Waddington, England,
on January 29, 1944, on a bombing raid over Berlin. It was their 27th operation
and was to be the Australian crew's last mission. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Ivan
(Joe) Ourston, 32, of Windsor in Queensland, had been told he had already
completed his number of missions and could be transferred out. The chances of
being killed in raids over Germany were so high that airmen were limited to 30
missions. But the Aussies had made a pact that they would all finish together. So
the commanding officer told Ourston and wireless operator Pilot Officer Robert
Ludlow, 31, of Glen Niven, Queensland, gunner Flight Sergeant Phillip Gill, 20, of
Coorparoo, Queensland, and gunner Flight Sergeant Jack Sutherland, 22, of
Prospect, South Australia, that this would be their last mission before being
transferred to other duties.
It was a tough one. Berlin was heavily defended and the Germans threw up all
the flak they could at the bombers. Ourston’s plane was bringing up the rear as he
had to photograph the result of the raid. It would draw maximum enemy fire. As
they made their final approach to Berlin over the town of Oranienburg the
Lancaster was hit by flak or fighters and crashed in flames. Three bodies were
quickly found and later buried near the crash site. After the war, one was
identified as Englishman Flight Sergeant Sidney Griffiths and he was reburied in
the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Berlin. The two others, whose nationalities
have not been determined, were placed in graves marked "unknown airman.
Back in Australia, Ourston's sister, Betty James, was told he was missing in
action. She has carried his photo in her wallet ever since, hoping that somehow
he might still be alive. It was not until Mano Schultze, 33, a local cabinet maker
and amateur historian, last year started searching the fields around Oranienburg
for crashed warplanes that answers to the mystery started to surface. "The area
had been set aside for military manoeuvres by the East German Army and was
only opened up to the public recently," he said. "We found parts of 14 warplanes
that had crashed around the town. We decided it would be our mission to identify
them all so relatives could know what happened to their missing men. "Some
were Russian, some American, some British. We found part of a wing of the
Lancaster just sticking above the ground. We dug and found the serial number
ED 867. "With the help of the German Army we dug further and found the
remains of three, possibly four, men about three metres under the ground. It
seems the plane exploded on impact and so it buried itself deep in the ground."
The German Army gave the airmen a temporary grave and notified British
authorities. RAF records gave the name of the crew and dental records indicated
the remains found were of Flight lieutenant Ourston.
In October defence experts from Canberra will go to the site to examine the
remains. It is hoped all the remaining bodies can be finally identified and reburied
with full military honours in the Berlin Allied War Cemetery alongside 252 other
Australians. The bodies of all seven crewmen appear to have been found now
and, even if individual remains can't be identified, they are no longer missing and
can be buried in a grave marked with the names of the full crew of ED867.
Betty James, 83, said finding her brother's body after almost 60 years had at last
brought peace to her and the family. 'When you lose someone like this you are
still waiting and wondering. You wonder where he is, was he captured, was he
kept overseas?" she said from her Adelaide home. "I always thought he was lost
over the sea. We weren't told much about how it happened. "Now we are at
peace because he is going to be officially buried. I am not looking for his body to
be brought home, just for him to be buried. It closes a chapter. It's peace of
mind." She said her brother, a motor mechanic, had been a steadying influence
on the crew because he was regarded as the old man. He was 32. He had a
girlfriend waiting at home. Betty James's son, Greg Bickford, said he had heard
three crewmen had parachuted out and later died in POW camps. Mr Bickford
said: "That story seems to have been disproved. My uncle trained pilots at
Bankstown before they sent him to Britain. He never came back, but his photo
has been on our family's mantelpiece ever since. "It has been marvellous for my
mum to put an end to the chapter of what happened to her brother."
Ross Stanford, 83, was a pilot in A-flight of the 467 Squadron alongside Ourston.
"It grips you a bit after all this time, particularly when you knew that bloke and
used to see him every day for six months. Joe was a quiet, steady man. He was
a regular guy" Some 1,300 Australian airmen arc still listed as missing in action
over Germany in World War 2.
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The discovery, recovery and identification of the Durston crew and their plane Lancaster ED867
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Account from 2003 in German and English of research started in 1997. Shows aerial photo of crash site. Excavations in 1999 discovered parts of aircraft and remains of crew which were then buried in Berlin war cemetery in year 2000. Reports correspondence with information and covers information found in captured enemy documents. Includes analysis of remains and shows routes of possible aircraft. Concludes with account of discovery and of the last flight of crew. Report from Australian Sydney Sun Herald newspaper on 5 August 2001 with account 'Peace at last for lost crew of ED867'. Contains photographs and diagrams.
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2003
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Twelve page printed document with photographs, maps and diagrams
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eng
deu
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MFryHL413129-200304-05
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Royal Australian Air Force
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Germany
Germany--Berlin
Germany--Oranienburg
Australia
Queensland--Brisbane
Queensland--Stanthorpe
New South Wales--Prospect
New South Wales
Queensland
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1997
1999
2000
2000-06-14
1944-01-28
1944-01-29
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David Bloomfield
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IBCC Digital Archive
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aircrew
crash
final resting place
killed in action
Lancaster
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Fry, Harold Leonard
H L Fry
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2020-03-04
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Fry, HL
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Forty-four items and two sub-collections with twenty items. The collection concerns Harold Leonard Fry (413129 Royal Air Force) who flew as a Lancaster navigator on 467 Squadron. He was killed on operation to Berlin on 1 January 1944. Collection contains correspondence including between his father, authorities and the air ministry, documents and photographs. In addition an account of the discovery, recovery and identification of his crew and their aircraft in 1997-2003. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Barton and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">Additional information on Harold Leonard Fry </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW22772577 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108192/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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Lancaster - Absturz Lehnitz
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Black and white map with Oranienburg just above centre. Black dot indicating Lancaster crash site between villages of Lehnitz and Schmachtenhagen.
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deu
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Map
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CFryHL-200304-01
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Germany--Oranienburg
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Fry, Harold Leonard
H L Fry
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2020-03-04
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Fry, HL
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Forty-four items and two sub-collections with twenty items. The collection concerns Harold Leonard Fry (413129 Royal Air Force) who flew as a Lancaster navigator on 467 Squadron. He was killed on operation to Berlin on 1 January 1944. Collection contains correspondence including between his father, authorities and the air ministry, documents and photographs. In addition an account of the discovery, recovery and identification of his crew and their aircraft in 1997-2003. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Barton and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span data-contrast="none" xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB" class="TextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">Additional information on Harold Leonard Fry </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW22772577 BCX0">is available via the</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW22772577 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":200,"335559740":276}"> <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/108192/">IBCC Losses Database.</a></span>
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Tel. No. Gerrard 9234
AIR MINISTRY,
Casualty Branch,
77 Oxford Street,
London, W.1.
5th December, 1945.
P.413129/44/P.4./405S.
Dear Mr. Fry,
You will remember my writing to you on 10th May 1944, to say that I had asked the British Red Cross Society to make a special enquiry through the International Red Cross committee about the cuff-links worn by your son, Flight Lieutenant H.L. Fry. A much belated reply has been received from the international Red Cross Committee at Geneva to the effect that no personal effects of any of the crew members have been recovered.
Our enquiry in May last year was made before D-day and the liberation of Europe. We now have the Royal Air Force Missing Research and Enquiry Service operating on the Continent. Our officers are able to move freely about much of Western Europe but they are precluded from operating in the Russian zone of Germany. Until this ban is lifted it is useless for us to tell them to make enquiries in the Russian zone.
Captured German records state that your son's Lancaster came down at 3.25 a.m. On 29th January, 1944, at Schmachtenhagen, a small place three miles east of Oranienburg and about 25 miles north of Berlin. The Germans mention only three out of the seven occupants – Pilot Officer Griffiths (the air bomber) and two unknown – and they state that the three were buried at Birkenwerder, about 12 miles N.N.W. Of Berlin. (This you already know).
Our natural reaction would be to instruct our Missing Research and Enquiry Service to visit the cemetery at Birkenwerder and find out, if possible the identity of the two unknown and the fate of the others. But Birkenwerder lies in the Russian zone of Germany and we can at present do nothing.
L.Fry, Esq.,
159 South Park Drive,
Ilford, Essex.
/Urgent
[page break]
Urgent representations at a high level have been made to open up the Russian zone to our investigators. If and when this becomes possible, we shall send out our Search officers.
Meanwhile may I again offer you our sympathy in your bereavement.
[signature}
(Wing Commander in Casualty Branch)
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Letter to Harold Fry's father from the Air Ministry
Description
An account of the resource
Refers to letter of 10 May 1944 stated they had passed on a request to the British Red Cross to enquire about his son's cuff-links but they replied that no personal effects on any crew member had been recovered. Goes on to outline new enquiries since the invasion and while they could not access the Russian zone, captured enemy records indicated his son's Lancaster came down on 29 January 1944 at Schmachtenhagen, 3 miles east of Orianianburg. Only three crew were recovered with only one named as Pilot Officer Griffiths (bomb aimer).
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Sinkinson A P
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1945-12-05
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Two page typewritten letter
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eng
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ESinkinsenAPFryL451205
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
Germany--Oranienburg
Germany--Berlin
Great Britain
England--London
England--Essex
England--London
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1945-12-05
1944-01-29
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Jan Waller
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IBCC Digital Archive
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aircrew
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bombing
crash
final resting place
killed in action
Lancaster
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Germany--Oranienburg
Title
A name given to the resource
Oranienburg [place]
Description
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