Tracing WW2 Luftwaffe air crew burials

Wow someone was awake! are these modern resting places? none sent home?

Hans Witkopp

8.3.43 Hans Witkopp. Chichester Cemetery, Sussex, England. Square 42 RC. Grave 43.

W. Bickel

13.8.40 Walter Bickel. Tangmere (St Andrew) Churchyard, Sussex, England. Row 1 Grave 463.

A. Strauch

15.8.40 August Wilhelm Strauch, 31. Tangmere (St Andrew) Churchyard, Sussex, England. Row 1 Grave 467.

Magerhams -> Magerhans

16.8.40 Walter Magerhans. Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire, England. Block 1, Grave 155.

Szymanoski -> Szymanowski

16.8.40 Albin Szymanowski. Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire, England. Block 9, Grave 22.

Schmidtke

16.8.40 Erich Schmidtke. Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire, England. Block 1, Grave 154.

At last (sorry if you nodded off while you were waiting!)

The main crews are as follows:

Hans Witkopp
W. Bickel
A. Strauch
Magerhams
Szymanoski
Schmidtke

I hope these are the correct spellings. The idea is to add the info to the displays where there final resting places are.

Also, what about missing German crew members, is there anything like Runnymede for German crews?

Thanks

I visited Fradley grave yard yesterday afternoon. This proved that my memory is not what it was! There is only the one German grave as previously noted.
Joachim Shwartz. 31.5.15/25.6.41.
This grave is in a line of five the others being RAAF. He is buried in a plot together with thirty two other airmen mostly RAAF.
Locals talk of several burials where the coffins were transported from the airfield along the lane to the church on bomb trolleys.
Many apologies for my previous post in remembering incorrectly five German graves.
In view of the afternoons fine weather i took some photos of the scene including Schartzs final resting place.

I have seen the grave stones years ago, i will visit later this week and get full details.

The only casualty I can find at Fradley was on 25.6.41 and is Joachim Schwarz who was a He 111 pilot other 3 crew bailed out. It appears local residents objected to him being moved to Cannock Chase

There are 9 German WW2 Casualties in Bath Haycombe Cemetary including 2 Soldiers

One was on 17.6.41 Unteroffizer Heinz Berwig in He 111 6N-CH wk num 5462

4 on 1.11.43 – Walter Overhoff, Kurt Reckin , Karl Heinz Siegler and Karl Weisskamp

1 on 15.3.44 Hans Schonleitner

1 on 24.4.44 Helmet H Trauwald

Details on actual incidents always appreciated

Really？？:confused:

You may already know from other sources/registers, but there are about 5 Luftwaffe graves in Fradley chuch yard which is about half a mile from the RAF airfield Lichfield, Staffs. I was told years ago that they crashed nearby.

There`s German crew buried at Haycombe Cemetery in Bath.

The VDK leaflet that I picked up from Cannock says there are 4,940 burials in 19 plots (18 in the main cemetery and 1 plot containing the graves of Zepplin crews in an area adjacent to the entrace building) and 285 down the road at the CWGC cemetery.

Hi, Should get some names up this week coming as soon as I have had a wonder around the museum. Re the Cannock register, how many names are we talking about exactly?

No. But all were generally early 1960s following the agreement between VDK and British authorities to establish the Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery.

If you needed the information as to when they were exhumed, then I would think that the cemetery where the airmen were originally buried would be able to help.

Andy Saunders

‘I have a full Cannock Register including registers of where the casualties came from and locations of burials that still exist in original locations (ie not moved to Cannock

Andy,

Does the copy of the register you have contain the dates of exhumation and re-internment.

regards

Chris

Thanks chaps, I will get list together of the main ones.

Thanks and will post up asap.

Dan

And maybe someone might even pop over to Cannock Chase to photograph the headstones for you if they knew which ones they were.

Regards,

kev35

Daniel

Why not put up a list of some of the displays you want info on and see if anyone bites

Paul

I wonder would the poster care to clarify if they mean “in the UK” or “anywhere”?

Moggy

UK, thanks to all for the info, I was looking for a good resource, my reason is that we have a lot of Luftwaffe displays where it gives information on the crew as “Killed” some people assume this means they are still in their aircraft, I thought it would be a nice thing if we could gradually add their final resting place, this is important when displaying crashed material.

I Not all buried at Cannock Chase

e.g.

6.12.39 Oberfeldwebel (Flt Sgt) Emil Rödel, 29. Crew member oFHeinkel He 115 float-plane (wk nr 2081, coded S4+BL) is buried at Great Bircham (St Mary) Churchyard, Norfolk, England. War Graves Plot 1 Row 1 Grave 4.

I wonder would the poster care to clarify if they mean “in the UK” or “anywhere”?

Moggy