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Memorial Crashed Lancaster Bomber

On 12 June 1943, a Lancaster bomber crahed on this location. Six of the crew members died in the crash.

Their names were:
W.F. BRADLEY
E.N. CUMMINGS
C.B. FLEMING
J.W. LAKE (RCAF)
G. GLOVER
A.B. MAGILL

The only survivor was LINTON STEPHENSON.

The memorial is located across the airfield site and thus on the west side of the field from the main runway 08-26. Here is a road that you are only allowed to drive on by staff (gravel road with actually prohibition sign). On this road there will eventually be a hut with walls that are built up step by step and also red and white checkered. In front of that, the monument is about 50 meters away.
Practice showed that it is on the west side of the main road, by driving into a road to a house / shed. Park the car there and walk around it, and near a kind of wall / grandstand it is in front of it in fairly long grass, somewhat to the left. Very difficult road to this location! Again very poorly or almost not indicated at all.

At the request of his Canadian family, Linton Stephenson was interred after his death on September 2, 2015 at the graves of his fallen 6 comrades of the Canadian (J.W. Lake) and British Air Force on the Alg. Terwolde Cemetery, Municipality of Voorst.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries, Hille Oppedijk (SGLO '39-'45) & Edwin van der Wolf
  • Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1, 2), Paul en Conny Boomstra - Bos (3)

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