IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden
The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France
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LEOPOLDSBURG War Cemetery (Limburg Belgium)
Page 1 The Pictures
Page 2 List of Casualties
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| Photo courtesy Jean-Michel Dominique (Bel) |
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| Fl/Lt Noel Curtis Tatam 18/12/1944 aged 26 for his daughter Ceril Hatfield |
Sgt Esmond Nicholson 18/12/1944 aged 23 Buried in Clichy Nothern Cemetery (Fr) |
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| P/O William Hewison Leese aged 20 for his niece Roma Davies |
F/O Geoffrey Deller Body commemorated on the Royal Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede for his nephew David Body |
| Part of crew of the Halifax Mk.111 serial LV818 | |
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| Fosse American cemetery, where four members of the crew were buried before to be removed here (3) and in Clichy (1) | |
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| Sgt William Ernest Mawson for his niece Hazel Syme |
Sgt Kenneth Forshaw Matthews for his brother Wycliffe Matthews |
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| F/O Douglas John Mole aged 29 buried in Taillette Communal Cemetery for his son David Mole |
F/O John Henry Waldron 18/12/1944 aged 28 buried in Taillette Communal Cemetery For John's niece and nephews Rachel, Paul and Malcolm Balen |
| Compiled by David Mole | |
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| F/O Bernard Mark Twilley aged 24 | F/Sgt Hugh Brenton Jones aged 18 for his sister Rea Camus |
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| W/O Harold William John Hildebrand aged 24 | Sgt Roy Challinor Hitchen aged 20 |
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| F/O Carl Winston Cassini aged 22 | F/O Edgar Harold Baron aged 22 |
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| Sgt Richard Holden aged 27 | |
| F/Sgt Roberts Hall aged 23 (no picture allowed) | |
| The crew of the Halifax Mk.111 serial
NP934 who crashed in the night of 17-18/12/1944 into a wood in Montignies,
South of Charleroi (Hainaut), Belgium. F/S Jones was amongst the youngest airmen killed on Bomber Command operations in 1944. for David Mole |
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| A part of the crew of the Halifax Mk
VII serial NP699 crashed 18/12/1944. L. to R.: S. E. Zadorozny - A. G-W. Blayney - M. Krakovsky - J. W. Green - G. D. Wilson |
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| L. to R.: M. Krakovsky - R. L. Cann - G. D. Wilson - A. G-W. Blayney - S. E. Zadorozny - J. W. Green - M. J. Boylan | |
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| P/O Michael Joseph Boylan aged 19 (buried here) for his brother Anthony Boylan |
P/o Alfred Goodman-Wells Blayney aged 27 (Buried here) for his grand daughter Mrs Roger Pothier |
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| P/O James William Green aged 20 Commemorated in Runnemyde Memorial (UK) |
P/o Stanley Ernest Zadorozny aged 21 Buried in Choloy War Cemetery (Fr.) |
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| F/O Robert Leslie Cann aged 22 Buried in Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery (Fr.) for his niece Judy Buller |
F/O Gordon Douglas Wilson aged 22 Buried in Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery (Fr.) for his nephew Gordon Wilson junior |
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| F/O Max Krakovsky for his daughter Judi Kauffman Max survived the crash and became a friend of David Mole |
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| Crew of the Halifax NR118 18/12/1944 Back, L. to R.: S. H. Pierce - J. M. Parrott - H. Brown - A. E. Kurtzhals - L. H. Janzen - A. Divitcoff - G. W. Olafsen |
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| L. to R.: J. M. Parrott - S. H. Pierce - A. E. Kurtzhals - H. Brown - L. H. Janzen - G. W. Olafsen - A. Divitcoff | |
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| Ammeter recovered from the wreckage (From the collection of Hector Maurage, Belgian friend of David Mole) |
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| Remembrance Monument in Pesche, place of the crash | |
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| P/O Herbert Brown who survived | David Mole at the inauguration of the monument |
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| F/S Alexander Divitcoff aged 21 for his sister Margaret McDonald |
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| P/O Allan Edward Kurtzhals aged 24 for his niece Dale Plante |
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| Paintings commissioned by David Mole | |
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| P/O Leslie Homer Janzen aged 24 | W/O Class II Gordon William Olafsen aged 22 |
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| F/O Samuel Henry Pearce aged 28 for his relative Leslie Green |
F/L James Murray Parrott |
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| F/O Vernon Beverley Gilson 02/11/1944
aged 22 for his great nephew Simon Jeffs |
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| Major Edwin Swales VC
DFC 23/02/1945 aged 29 Edwin was born in Durban, SAF, where he was educated and lived. He he first served in the army with the Natal Mounted Rifles before transferring to the SAAF. He was the only member of the SAAF ever to win the VC, the last member of Bomber Command, the last member of the Pathfinder Force and the last airman serving in Europe to be so honoured, but more importantly he was the last South African to win the VC. For Paul Kilmartin |
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751 casualties
IF You have a casualty picture, please send me a copy, I'll be glad to show it on this page.
IF You want a king size copy of this picture (300/900 ko - 2592/1944 pixels) please e-mail me.
Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations
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