1060893 Edwin WEAVER, 2 Special Air Service: 16/10/1944

Remembering today:
Casualty
Private WEAVER, EDWIN THOMAS
Service Number 1060893
Died 16/10/1944
Aged 38
2nd Special Air Service Regiment, A.A.C.
Buried at DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Location: Bayern, Germany
Number of casualties: 2879
Cemetery/memorial reference: 3. K. 6.
See cemetery plan

 

Edwin was captured and murdered by the Germans during Operation Loynton. I found a couple of pictures of him on the net. My thanks to Ron Goldstein for the photo of his grave at Durnbach.

Keith

 

Operation Loyton.

Operation Loyton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BBC - WW2 People's War - Operation Loyton

Regards
Tom

 

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Keith

 

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Keith

Keith,

Any image (Jpeg/Jpg) over 2.00 MB has to be resized in order for it to ba accepted by the programme.

I usually have to do it with most of my posts.

Regards
Tom

 

There is a memorial in the forest outside Moussey to those SAS murdered by the Germans in the aftermath of Loynton.

If I remember correctly the memorial,erected by the French, reads as if the group fell at the spot. However,it transpired that the group were taken prisoner and transported across the border to Gattenau, Germany where they were executed.The group must have been found buried at Gattenau and later their remains were interred at the Dunbach,concentrated cemetery in Bavaria,many miles from the scene of the foul deed.

There was a war crimes trial of the prepretators involved,postwar.

Operation Loynton has been discussed at length here in the past.

 

Keith,

Here you go also in fact I have all the SAS in Durnbach....

Regards
Tom

 

Can anyone make out his cap badge n the photo above?

Keith