I came across this interesting story today. dailygleaner.com - Dutch woman solves mystery of slain N.B. soldier | By CHRIS MORRIS - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada
Also found this story. Aviation History >> D-Day and Arnhem Glider Operations - Global Aviation Resource - The Online Aviation Magazine
His headstone from Findagrave. With the items described in the article. (The painted rock and the New Brunswick flag).
Dave/Ramacal Perhaps this is one for the CWGC to amend its records. The headstone shows the date of death as 14th November 1944 which is the date his body was recovered whereas his death is known to be 25/26th September. John
Dave/Ramacal Perhaps this is one for the CWGC to amend its records. The headstone shows the date of death as 14th November 1944 which is the date his body was recovered whereas his death is known to be 25/26th September. John I did actually spot that myself a little while ago John, how would one go about rectifying the record?
I'm going to the National Archives tomorrow and will look up the war diary for his unit, to see what they recorded for 25/26 Sept. It'll be a start. It's WO179/3130. If the war diary tells me what we need to know and would to like to see, I'll send CWGC the evidence. Cheers - Rob
These are the other names for 23 Field Coy, RCE listed for 25/26 September 1944, provided of course they were the guys who were killed with him. 001 HOPE DLG G/53227 23 FIELD COY 26/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 002 MARTIN JR - 23 FIELD COY 26/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 003 MCKEE RT G/13145 23 FIELD COY 25/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 004 ROHERTY LJ G/6257 23 FIELD COY 26/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 005 RYAN DW F/22448 23 FIELD COY 26/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 006 THOMPSON NA F/91044 23 FIELD COY 26/09/1944 ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS As has been stated, they were buried in numerous places. Rhenen, Holten Canadian, Groesbeek and Arnhem Oosterbeek. (There were no other deaths recorded for this unit up until Magnusson's body was recovered).
John E-mail to casualty@cwgc.org with a copy of the paper attached. List the details of the other casualties on that memo with the date shown commemorated on the CWGC database and the date of Magnusson's death. They will acknowledge your e-mail straight away and it normally takes about a month to get an answer. The missing presumed killed might be the only stumbling block, as you can't actually prove when he was actually killed, due to the time it took for the body to show up. Thought one of you airborne guys might have a piece of paper. Cheers - Rob
John/Dave, If you are successful getting the date changed, it would be worth letting the online newspaper in the first post of this thread know what is happening. I think they'd be very interested. Rob
John/Dave, If you are successful getting the date changed, it would be worth letting the online newspaper in the first post of this thread know what is happening. I think they'd be very interested. Rob I agree Rob
Wow, this story kind of tugs at my heart strings a bit. I was born in Holland, went to elementary school in Saint John, New Brunswick. Couple of Magnussons in my classes. My thanks to the forum members posting the story, and all the usual great add ons with photos, stories, etc. You boys made my day, but I think I gotta grab a Kleenex.
