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21-06-2008, 12:37 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Details of lost crews. I just received a photo for Ravenna War Cemetery in Italy with a collective grave. Any details on the flight would be welcome. Seems to be (1) RAAF, (1) RCAF & (5) RAF The details of the Australian: FRASER, GILBERT GORDON Sergeant 14065 57sq 24/10/1942 Ravenna War Cemetery 14065 Fraser group.JPG
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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21-06-2008, 10:17 AM
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You're Top Poster: #22  | 24 October 1942 57 Squadron. Lancaster I W4251 DX- Op: Milano. Crew. P/O. J T M. Miles + Sgt. G G. Fraser RAAF + F/O. W C. Hamilton RCAF + Sgt. J G. Taylor + Sgt. H B. Smith + Sgt. A F. Hefferman + Sgt. W J. Wakelin + Took off 1233 Scampton. Presumed lost over the sea. Four, Sgt. Fraser RAAF, F/O. Hamilton RCAF, Sgt. Smith and Sgt. Hefferman have no known graves. BCL Vol.3 W R. Chorley. Geoff, got a feeling that the above is not correct as Fraser, Hamilton, Smith and Hefferman are recorded as been interred at Ravenna, coudn't find Hefferman on the CWGC site. Last edited by CXX; 21-06-2008 at 10:55 AM.. |
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21-06-2008, 01:54 PM
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On the Ravenna records CWGC has his name as Heffernan, not Hefferman, his Father as Herffernan and the Headstone as Hefferman? There were four Aussies on the Malta memorial that were actually buried in Italy. This has now been changed. In Memory of Sergeant ARTHUR FRANCIS HEFFERNAN 1033069, 57 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died age 32 on 24 October 1942 Son of John James Herffernan and Hannah Heffernan, of Blackley, Manchester. Remembered with honour RAVENNA WAR CEMETERY
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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