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Post by chinapilot on Dec 6, 2011 12:56:59 GMT 12
Have a couple of days there..know where Kalka is buried but does any one know wherre the Ventura raid ones are?
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Post by errolmartyn on Dec 6, 2011 15:06:50 GMT 12
Have a couple of days there..know where Kalka is buried but does any one know wherre the Ventura raid ones are? Assuming you are referring to the 487 Sqn's disasterous raid of 3 May 43: BAYNTON Thomas James: Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery - 13.9.173, Utrecht, Netherlands. COUTTS Andrew Edward: Runnymede Memorial - Panel 198. GOODFELLOW William Desmond Laurence: Runnymede Memorial - Panel 198. McGOWAN Stuart: Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery - 69.C. coll. grave 9, North Holland, Netherlands. PERYMAN Stanley Bailey: Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery - 69.C. coll. grave 8, North Holland, Netherlands. SMITH Cyril Richard: Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery - 69.C. coll. grave 9, North Holland, Netherlands. WARNER Timothy William James: Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery - 33.B.3, North Brabant, Netherlands. Errol |
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Post by chinapilot on Dec 6, 2011 16:33:31 GMT 12
Thanks Errol...knew that if you saw the post you'd come up trumps :-)
Prob a few other Kiwis buried in the country also.
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Post by errolmartyn on Dec 6, 2011 19:15:08 GMT 12
Ian,
About 257 NZ airmen all told. A lot of burials in such a small country - reflecting in large part the tendency of Bomber Command to route so many of its aircraft over it, and where also an all-too effective Luftwaffe night fighter force was based.
By comparison, the figure for France (about 15 times greater in area) is about 276.
Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 6, 2011 21:16:26 GMT 12
Wow, that is sobering. And when you consider all the other Allied deaths that must be on top of these numbers, it's really sad.
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