Commonwealth War Graves Protestant Churchyard Drachtstercompagnie

In the Cemetery of the Protestant Church in Drachtstercompagnie, municipal Smallingerland, are six Commonwealth War Graves.
These are the graves of the on 08/09/1941 killed:

Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Frederick Alphonsus Baty, 401720, RNZAF, age 30
Sergeant (W.Op. Air Gnr.) George Alfred Cook, 988368, RAF, age 23
Pilot Officer (Obs.) Roy Le Masurier Cox, 68752, RAF, age 21
Sergeant (Pilot) Ian Patrick McHaffie, 1052297, RAF, age 19
Flight Sergeant (Pilot) John Gerald O'Hara Keating, R/56146, RCAF, age 19
Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) John Gordon Selley, 932198, RAF, age 20

On 7 September 1941 at 2023 departed from RAF Marham, the Wellington R1798 with the mission: a bombing raid over the city of Berlin. The aircraft was part of a formation of 197 bombers with the same mission. R1798 was shot down over the Netherlands by the German night-fighter Oblt. Helmut Lent, 4./NJG1 and crashed at 0458 in Drachtstercompagnie. All six crew members died in the crash, they are all buried in this cemetery.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Klaas Graansma
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• CHORLEY, W.R., RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 1941, Ian Allan Publishing, 1998.
• MIDDLEBROOK, M. & EVERITT, C., The Bomber Command War Diaries, Midland Publishing, 2011.