RAAF Burials in Europe

Geoff how is it going with the Dutch list,? I probably go up north this or next month

Hi Philip,

Thank you again for the offer.

Off to bed so I do not have the time to check what is "up north" so I have put up the lot which are 63 in 27 cemeteries. If any are on your route that would be great.

The numbers of course are how many remain in each of those cemeteries.

Let me know what you might be able to achieve if any and I will forward the details.

Cheers
Geoff

4 SCHOONEBEEK (OUD SCHOONEBEEK) GENERAL CEMETERY Drenthe
3 VLIELAND GENERAL CEMETERY Friesland
1 WONSERADEEL (WITMARSUM) PROTESTANT CHURCHYARD Friesland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 BRUMMEN (HAL) GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 GENDRINGEN ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 GORSSEL GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
4 HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 LAREN (BARCHEM) GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 STEENDEREN GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
5 ZELHEM GENERAL CEMETERY Gelderland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 MAASTRICHT GENERAL CEMETERY Limburg
1 MILSBEEK WAR CEMETERY Limburg Completed - Pieter Schlebaum - Thank you.
6 OOSTELBEERS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD Noord-Brabant Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 OOSTERHOUT PROTESTANT CEMETERY Noord-Brabant 1 BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY Noord-Bramant (CRAWLEY, CHARLES DOUGLAS - RAF) Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
3 BARSINGERHORN (KOLHORN) GENERAL CEMETERY Noord-Holland
1 BEVERWIJK GENERAL CEMETERY Noord-Holland
2 HAARLEMMERMEER (ZWANENBURG) GENERAL CEMETERY Noord-Holland
2 SPANBROEK CHURCHYARD Noord-Holland
3 TEXEL (DEN BURG) CEMETERY Noord-Holland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 WIERINGEN (HIPPOLYTUSHOEF) GENERAL CEMETERY Noord-Holland Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
5 DALFSEN GENERAL CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 DEN HAM GENERAL CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
5 HARDENBERG PROTESTANT CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
2 IJSSELMUIDEN (GRAFHORST) GENERAL CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
1 MARKELO GENERAL CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.
4 OLST (DUUR) GENERAL CEMETERY Overijssel Completed - Philip Reinders - Thank you.

 

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Thanks Philip,

Great photos.

Cheers

Geoff

 

your welcome, will wich others I can pick up

 

Hi Philip,

Thank you.

(3) more cemeteries completed. You are a star.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Hi Philip,

Thank you very much for the photos.

Another two cemeteries down.

All on the same 460sq aircraft.

DAN, NICHOLAS Warrant Officer 403561 460sq 10/08/1942 23 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 4. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

FINLAY, JAMES ALEXANDER Flight Sergeant 403175 460sq 10/08/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 1. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

PONTON, ROBERT ALLAN Sergeant 401080 460sq 10/08/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 5. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

SMITH, KEVIN ARGYLE Flight Sergeant 402832 460sq 10/08/1942 27 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 3. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

Cheers

Geoff

 

With a bit of luck I will also do the Noord Brabant ones also this year

 

List updated at post 501 here:

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-grave-photographs/11149-raaf-burials-europe-13.html#post309908

Cheers

Geoff

 

List updated at post 501 here:

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-grave-photographs/11149-raaf-burials-europe-13.html#post309908

Cheers

Geoff

I have got a picture for you of the headstone of Flight Sergeant Reader (RAAF), buried at Milsbeek War Cemetery.

 

Hi Philip,

Thank you very much for the photos.

Another two cemeteries down.

All on the same 460sq aircraft.

DAN, NICHOLAS Warrant Officer 403561 460sq 10/08/1942 23 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 4. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

FINLAY, JAMES ALEXANDER Flight Sergeant 403175 460sq 10/08/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 1. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

PONTON, ROBERT ALLAN Sergeant 401080 460sq 10/08/1942 29 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 5. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

SMITH, KEVIN ARGYLE Flight Sergeant 402832 460sq 10/08/1942 27 Royal Australian Air Force Australian Grave 3. HENGELO (GELDERLAND) GENERAL CEMETERY

Cheers

Geoff

Not to forget the fifth crew member.

F/S. S B. Goord. RNZAF
CWGC :: Casualty Details

9-10 August 1942

460 squadron.
Wellington IV Z1463 UV-L
Op. Osnabruck

The aircraft took off from Breighton at 0010 hrs and crashed near Hengelo 12 km south east of Zutphen. Holland.


The Osnabrück raid of 9/10 August 1942

192 aircraft - 91 Wellingtons, 42 Lancasters, 40 Stirlings, 19 Halifaxes. 3 Halifaxes and 3 Wellingtons lost.
Visibility was good but the initial flares were dropped over a wide area. Osnabrück's report shows that 206 houses and 1 military building were destroyed and nearly 4,000 other buildings were damaged, mostly lightly. Among industrial buildings hit were a vehicle works, a gas-meter factory, a textile factory and an iron foundry. 62 people were killed - 40 civilians, 17 foreign workers, 5 service or air-raid men - and 107 injured.

 

Not to forget the fifth crew member.

F/S. S B. Goord. RNZAF
CWGC :: Casualty Details

9-10 August 1942

460 squadron.
Wellington IV Z1463 UV-L
Op. Osnabruck

Hi Peter,

I knew you would add the other.

Surely was a commonwealth effort.

Goord was an Englishman from Kent in the RNZAF and flying in 460sq RAAF.

Cheers

Geoff

 

I have got a picture for you of the headstone of Flight Sergeant Reader (RAAF), buried at Milsbeek War Cemetery.

Hi Pieter,

That would be fantastic.

Thank you for the offer.

PM sent.


Cheers

Geoff