Old Boy
master brummie
On June 22nd 1944 an RAF Lancaster bomber was shot down by a German night fighter near the village of Oene in Holland. My brother was a member of the crew.2 crew members were killed but 6 baled out by parachute. Of these 3 were soon captured, including my brother and became prisoners of war. The remaining 3 were found by the resistance and kept hidden. 2 finally made their way back to England but the flight engineer, poor Ken Ingram, was shopped and together with 6 members of the resistance and an American airman was executed without trial on 1st October 1944. A memorial was erected in their memory in the nearby town of Appeldoom.
The villagers always remembered this incident and on 22nd June 2009 exactly 65 years afterwards a memorial was unveiled in memory of the entire crew all of whom have now passed away, Together with my wife and daughter I accepted am invitation to attend this ceremony and it was most heart warming to realise and be told that the prople of Holland still remembered those who had taken part in their liberation. I am posting 4 photographs but if anyone cares to look at www.oene-info.nl they will find a complete photographic record.
Old Boy
The villagers always remembered this incident and on 22nd June 2009 exactly 65 years afterwards a memorial was unveiled in memory of the entire crew all of whom have now passed away, Together with my wife and daughter I accepted am invitation to attend this ceremony and it was most heart warming to realise and be told that the prople of Holland still remembered those who had taken part in their liberation. I am posting 4 photographs but if anyone cares to look at www.oene-info.nl they will find a complete photographic record.
Old Boy