Crash Site Avro Avro Lancaster Mk I W4108

On the 14 September 1942, Lancaster B.MK.1 W4108 "UG-B" from 1654 HCU (Heavy Conversion Unit) crashed near the Dutch town of Oudehorne. Airborne from RAF Wigsley, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire at 23:30. One of 466 RAF aircraft whose target was Bremen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield; crashed on farmland worked by the Kleistra brothers at the Buitenweg road, Oudehorne, 10 km east of Heerenveen.

All seven rest in the Nieuwehorne protestant cemetery:
Pilot: 103940 Plt Off Edwin Frederick Dowdell - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery Row 14 Grave 30.
Flight Engineer: 1105111 Sgt George Alec Walker - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery Row 14 Grave 29.
Navigator: NZ/391872 Plt Off Patrick Aylmer Vivian RNZAF - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant
Cemetery Row 14 Grave 32.
Bomb Aimer: R/86603 Flt Sgt John Joseph William Adams RCAF - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant
Cemetery Plot 14 Grave 31.
Wireless Operator: 652245 Flt Sgt Robert Robertson - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery Row 14 Grave 34.
Air Gunner: 651576 Sgt Percy Kenneth Jones - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery Row 14 Grave 28.
Air Gunner: 1338677 Sgt Reginald Laurence Moss - Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery Row 14 Grave 33.

In 1992 a monument was erected to commemorate the airmen of Lancaster W4108 on the road at the edge of the field where the aircraft came down.

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Source

• Text: Jan Siderius + TracesOfWar
• Photos: Herma de Vries (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), Jan Siderius (6, 7, 8)
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