I was sent this link today, and on a trawel through the various albums came across these two photographs, taken in 1943, of the funeral of an RAF Crewman, Sgt Dennis Walter Angell of 97 Sqn.
http://www.historical-media.com/id107.htm
Not great quality I’m afraid but of some interest:-
Dennis was the tail gunner on a 97 Sqn Lancaster III JB275 OF-H detailed to attack Leipzig on the night of 20/21 October 1943. It had departed Bourn at 17:53. Of the crew 5 were killed and two taken POW:-
P/O K Painter KiA
Sgt T Deacon KiA
Sgt R C Saunders pow
Sgt J E Bacon KiA
Sgt T Andrews pow
Sgt S F Hone KiA
Sgt D W Angell KiA
Those that were killed now rest in the Berlin 1939 – 1945 War Cemetary
20 year old Dennis was originally from Woolston district of Southampton and the Son of Walter Heathcote and Eva Florence Angell
By: warwickspursfan - 27th September 2020 at 04:50
Hello Ian / Ulf – Any more info. on this post, my uncle was on board that aircraft and sadly didn’t survive the crash. There is a reference on this site;
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/216388 which claims the plane was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Schulte-Heinrich of the 7./NJG 2, flying a Bf 110G from probably Venlo airfield, the Netherlands.
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December 15, 2006 at 8:53 pm