DCK, your source is plain wrong. I don’t know aboout the 19 Sqn pilots but ‘The Pole’ (F/Lt Leslaw Szczerbinski) was killed on 4 May 1945 attacking German shipping off Wangerooge and has no known grave, either, so I can’t see why he should be ‘put aside’.

If he was killed outside Wangerooge, wouldn’t he be buried (if found) somewhere in that area, and not in Hamburg? I’m just saying. You could say my source is wrong, but I have a problem understanding how they would take the Poles body, transport it all the way to Hamburg and bury him the same day as he crashed. It seems like an awful lot of trouble.

But thanks for the info though. The 19 squadron boys killed over Northern Denmark, and the Pole killed north of Wilhelmshaven. They’re (if these are all) covered for now.

I think if his research was more careful he’d have more right to say so. Or should I call it a pattern of giving less “thought” into Poles, Czechs etc and caring more for the pure Norwegians.?

In my honest opinion, my source’s opinion on this matter is that he is wrong, coming from the German side of things – he’s biased.

Now that’s hard work put in. DNA and all of that. If only this could work with *my* case.

Last on that one btw – a journalist told me he would get in touch with Norwegian officials, putting them on the case of getting to the bottom of this.

My source says that the date on the stone, 4th of May, means it MUST have been him, if it wasn’t, the British wouldn’t have bothered to write it, then they would just not write a date at all, and that makes sense to me (19th Squadron and the Pole put aside)

Second, he’s very critical towards how the British treated fallen comrades, that there’s a pattern in it, how they gave less “thought” into South Africans, New Zealanders, Norwegians etc and cared more for the pure British. A controversial opinion perhaps? I don’t know what you chaps think of it?

Here’s the grave, got the picture this morning.