Hello all,
Having just returned from hols in Europe i hope someone can help with something that is mystifying me.
During our time away we visited Durnbach War cemetery a very sobering and, for my first visit, emotional place. Walking along these lines of well maintained graves I was surprised just how many names were familiar to someone who hasn’t time these days to read as much as i would like. A Warburton, W Guy Lockhart, R A D Trevor-Roper and it was the latter, one of Gibson’s crew on the Dams raid that left me searching the CWGC records today to see where those who fell were laid to rest.
Most are unsurprisingly buried in the Germany, but Dinghy Young and his crew are buried in Norway. Until this morning i was unaware that they had been found and buried, let alone that they ended up there when their a/c crashed off the Dutch coast.
Now this may be old news to some but can anyone tell me how they ended up in Norway?
By: Hurrifan - 28th August 2006 at 23:28
Thank you Mr Clarke for your usual tactfull(?) response!! 😮
Maybe exhaustion is a more accurate description for my state of health yesterday as the last 2 weeks have been spent travelling gthrough various parts of Germany, Austria & Northern Ireland trying to trace various war graves.
Unfortunetely another Web site which i came across by accident (and which i now find appears to be uncared for !) made the same mistake in taking Bergin to be in Norway.
apologies for the uncalled for waste of everyones time! 😮
By: Hurrifan - 27th August 2006 at 23:32
Been Googling for 72478 Sqn Ldr Henry Melvin Young, but could only find that he was killed in action on May 17, 1943.
thanks Papa Lima….i am knackered 🙂 !!! ,found the info this morning and more or less constantly on line or reading various books since!!!
Its definately them according to the War graves site ,found a listing of the crew and they all seem to have ended up in Bergin. I also found a photo of A-apple after the crash off the Dutch coast…maybe they got into the dinghy and drifted north on the tide?
anyway time for the bunk!
By: Papa Lima - 27th August 2006 at 23:10
Been Googling for 72478 Sqn Ldr Henry Melvin Young, but could only find that he was killed in action on May 17, 1943.
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