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Wesley_Choat_by_Lily_Farrell.pdf
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Frank_Spencer_Charles_Day_by_Matilda_Cotton.pdf
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215159061
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https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3639980
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G_G_CROUCH.pdf
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F_SCOTT_2_.pdf
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http://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=112154
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/collections/home-page-stories/the-loss-of-ambon-and-gull-force
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http://members.optusnet.com.au/dacoutts/Thirty_missions_John_Coutts.htm
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http://aircrewremembered.com/taylor-g.html
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Edgar_James_Esbary___A_Arbon.pdf
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212209105/athos-arthur-smythe
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2017_Josh_Berman_Eric_James_Jarrett.pdf
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This story was first related to me in 1998 when I met Conrad Dumoulin in Ieper. He had a photo of a crashed Lancaster, on a property owned by his grandfather, near Langemark just north of Ieper. His own father Antoon, a young man at the time, was an eye-witness to the aftermath of the crash and the recovery of the wreckage and the bodies of the crew. His account is recorded on the 463 Squadron page. The accident report describes the events; the following text has been augmented with additional information: Lancaster LL882 callsign JO-J took off from RAF Waddington at 2200 hours on the night of 10/11th May 1944 to bomb the marshalling yards at Lille, France. Bomb load 1 x 4000lb and 16 x 500lb bombs. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. Fourteen aircraft from the Squadron took part in the raid and three of these including LL882 / JO-J failed to return. Post war it was established that the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter, flown by Lt Hans J. Schmitz of Jagdscwhader 4N. JG1. It was attacked from below by Schmitz's Messerschmitt Bf 110G night fighter equipped with upward firing cannon, nicknamed 'schrage musik" by the Germans. This allowed the fighter to get into the Lancaster's blind spot and open fire with devastating effect. The Lancaster exploded mid-air and fell in pieces into a waterlogged clay pit at the Dumoulin brickworks some 2kms west of Langemark (West-Vlaanderen) and about 8kms north of Ieper (Ypres). Schmitz was later killed in action in September 1944. The other losses on this night appear to have been similarly lethal with just one survivor from the total of 12 aircraft lost from No. 5 Group including the six RAAF aircraft. All the crew of JO-J are buried in the Wevelgem Communal Cemetery which is located about 22kms east of Ieper a town centre on the Meenseweg NB connecting Ieper to Menin, Wevelgem and Kortrijk, Belgium. Exactly why they were buried so far away is unknown. The crew of JO-J were: RAAF 402817 Sqn Ldr M Powell, DFC Captain (Pilot); RAF FO Jaques, R (Navigator); RAF Flt Sgt B Fraser, (Bomb Aimer); RAAF 406700 Flt Lt Read, W N (Wireless Operator Air Gunner); RAF Sgt H L Molyneux, (Flight Engineer); RAAF 407199 FO Croft, R McK (Air Gunner); RAAF 407821 FO Croston, D P (Air Gunner). Steve Larkins March 2019 A link to the Aircrew Remembered page for this incident is posted against the names of each of the crew.
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David_Spry_by_Laura_Cassell.pdf
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http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/ww1/display/51079-lockleys-memorial-centre-formerly-lockleys-memorial-hall/
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F_SCOTT.pdf
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F_REDMAN.pdf
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"That just reminds me of a yarn," he said; And look for the body of Lofty Lane He had a thousand yarns inside his head. They waited for him, ready with their mirth And creeping smiles, - then suddenly turned pale, Grew still, and gazed upon the earth. They heard no tale. No further word was said. And with his untold fun, Half leaning on his gun, They left him - dead.
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http://classicwarbirds.net/75th-anniversary-of-the-forgotten-18th-squadron
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https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1504223
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http://www.bacchusmarsh.avenueofhonour.org.au/
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161185692/thomas-joseph-mckenna
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Desmond_George_Loxton___M_Wirth.pdf
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https://vwma.org.au/research/home-page-archives/mystery-of-the-black-cat
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/letter-from-lone-pine
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2018_Oliver_Thomas_William_Victor_Richardson.pdf
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https://heritagedetection.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/hidden-history-of-a-ww2-oven-at-moora/
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/research/home-page-archives/edgar-anstey-at-isandlwana
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C_CLIFFORD.pdf
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ANZAC Cove.......... There’s a lonely stretch of hillocks: There’s a beach asleep and drear: There’s a battered broken fort beside the sea. There are sunken trampled graves: And a little rotting pier: And winding paths that wind unceasingly. There’s a torn and silent valley: There’s a tiny rivulet With some blood upon the stones beside its mouth. There are lines of buried bones: There’s an unpaid waiting debt : There’s a sound of gentle sobbing in the South. Poems of Leon Gellert
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A_WALKER.pdf
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O_WOODWARD.pdf
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Jack_Richard_Hopgood___B_Yates.pdf
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http://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/john-simpson-kirkpatrick-and-his-donkey
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https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/story-of-emden-told-by-collectibles
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https://www.bhcemetery.com.au/result.php?surname=merrett&first_name=&other_name=&submit=Name_Search
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/a-tale-of-two-soldiers
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http://www.saam.org.au/south-australian-airmen-of-the-great-war/
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2017_Jessica_Timms_William_Walter_Atkinson_Fox.pdf
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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189512508
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https://watervalps.sa.edu.au/
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Lloyd_Evelyn_Wigg___J_Nguyen.pdf
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W_W_GARRETT.pdf
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http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/curr-francis-lawrence-9882
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/adf-peacekeepers-day
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AE2_PDF.zip
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http://aircrewremembered.com/smith-eric-alfred.html
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2017_Alicia_Crowhurst_Jessie_Emily_Wakefield.pdf
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https://vwma.org.au/collections/home-page-stories/adelaides-war-memorial-oak
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