Opmerkelijk graf Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery
Ik werd via een lid van een ander forum attent gemaakt op deze opmerkelijke grafsteen op de Bergen op Zoom War Cemetery. Zelf had ik ook nog nooit gezien dat er vliegtuiggegevens op een graf werden vermeld. Maar is er iemand op het forum die meer over dit graf kan vertellen?
Aircraft Type: Halifax
Serial number: NA 508
Radio call sign: KN – A
Unit: ATTD 77 SQN RAF
Summary:
Halifax NA508 took off from RAF Full Sutton, Yorkshire at 2315 hours on the night of
16/17th June1944, detailed to bomb Sterkrade, Germany. Nothing was heard from the
aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base.
Crew:
RAAF 415498 PO Blair, R A W Captain (Pilot)
RAF Sgt H L Moore (Flight Engineer)
RAAF 425210 PO Pratt, L G (Observer)
RAAF 423597 Flt Sgt G A Armstrong, (Air Bomber)
RAAF 410370 WO J P O’Meara, (Wireless Air Gunner)
RAAF 427807 FO Date, J M (Mid Upper Gunner)
RAF Sgt D G Tastin, (Tail Gunner)
A 1947 report by a Missing Research & Enquiry team stated “ the Communal Police at Neuwer-Amstel reported that the aircraft crashed in flames at Neuwer-Amstel on the night of 16/17 June 1944. German documents confirmed that only one body was recovered that of WO O’Meara.” He is buried at the Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Locality Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
The other six crew members have no known grave and their names are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing, Runnymede, Surrey, UK.