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List of Lost Aircrew
Forest Grave
On the reverse 'Lyon la Foret. Photo taken by local people & given to British Army/smuggled film.
Johnnie Holden and Crew
#1 is Johnnie Holden as a trainee. It is signed on the front 'Lots of Love, Green Eyes, Johnnie x'.
#2 is a full length portrait of Johnnie Holden in flying kit.
#3 is a grave in the woods.
#4 is a head and…
Tags: aircrew; final resting place; pilot; training
Testimony of resistance fighters
They had been warned by an English airman that the SS were going to carry out shootings and found refuge on 25th August. They were liberated on 29th August. The SS shot eight Resistance fighters and…
Tags: final resting place; Lancaster; lynching; Resistance
David George's Grave
#1 is a general view of the cemetery where he rests.
#2 is a close up of his grave.
#3 is his cross with a woman tending to flowers.
Bob Burns - the hundred mile walk (Stalag Luft VII to Berlin) with saxophone and clarinet
Grave of crew
Record of Loss of Halifax W7884
Pope (1578663) and Theodore Ian Mardon Edwards (R/97583) were killed. Their burial details are recorded.
Gresse Church Chronicle Extract
In the second part he describes damage to the cemetery during a bombardment from the other…
Charlie Warner's obituary
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Grave of Pilot Officer W Hughes
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Cecil Rhodes grave
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Request for grave photograph
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Les Pelletiers and Graves
#1 two men dressed as farm workers, with shotguns, sitting on garden chairs.
#2 is a man and a women. The women is trying to enter a small door to an enclosed well.
#3 is two women with shovels working in a…
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French Cemetery
#1 is a view of graves. In the background a French tricolour is flying. The reverse is blank.
#2 is the grave of Jack's six crew members. Their names are recorded as is the date of their demise. On the reverse…
Norman Gorfunkle's Grave
#1 and #3 are his plot marked with a star of David.
#2 is a woman standing behind his star of David grave stone.
#4 is his plot with a pot of flowers and a flag over his grave stone.
#5 is a his grave stone…
Fred Dyde's Funeral
#1 and 2 are captioned October 1943 and show the funeral procession and guard of honour.
#3 and 4 show the guard of honour at Fred's grave side and firing a salute. It is captioned 'October 1943 Mourners Grandpa…
Robert Palmer headstone
Palmer grave
Right - image of a grave with headstone for Arthur Robert Palmer and stones for Robert Palmer and Douglas Palmer at St. Peter and St. Paul church Gravesend.
Identification…
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Rheinberg cemetery and Hoffnungsthal memorial
Right - three men and a woman standing beside a stone memorial with many wreaths. Captioned 'Daddy (right) and Les Owen (third from right) laying flowers…
Headstones
Middle - white headstone for B Nundy.
Right - white headstone for W Delgarno.
Headstones
Middle - white headstone for G Russell DFC.
White headstone for A L Carter DFC.
Robert Palmer headstone
Right - three rows of white headstones with Robert Palmer's front left with two poppy wreaths.