By: Pathfinder - 23rd December 2004 at 16:10
thanks for your details !
I hope to can find more about all the crashed a/c in the area of Kiel.
Wish you a merry xmas !
greetings from rainy and stormy, snowless Kiel
nils
By: archieraf - 18th December 2004 at 17:39
Nils, the following information comes from RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War by W R Chorley:
97 Sqdn Lancaster III JB190 OF-V took off 1705 hrs from Bourn on op to Berlin. Abandoned in the general vicinity of Kiel, where S.L Garlick, formerly a Lt in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and a graduate of Edinburgh University, is buried in the War Cemetery. F/S Edwards has no known grave. F/S Charlton’s DFM was not Gazetted until 8 May 1945.
Crew & their fates:
S/L J M Garlick DFC & Bar – killed
F/S J M Anderson RAAF – POW
F/O A G Boyd – POW
F/S E O Charlton DFM – POW
W/O F O A Dawkins – POW
F/S M T Ward RAAF – POW
F/S F Edwards – killed
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