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Lancaster ME858 Memorial Hunsel

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Lancaster ME858 Memorial Hunsel

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Lancaster ME858 Memorial Hunsel

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    September 21, 2024

    In memory of the 7-man crew of an English Avro Lancaster bomber shot down by a German night fighter in Hunsel, who died on 21 July 1944,
    a monument was unveiled on the day of National Remembrance Day, 4 May 2009, at the Schansstraat in Hunsel by the deputy mayor of the municipality of Leudal, Mr. A.J.M. Walraven, in the presence of 15 English relatives and Mr. Ton Bosman with his father, initiators of this memorial. The only still airworthy Lancaster PA 474 "Phantom of the Ruhr" of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, made a flypast during the unveiling. The V-sign and the aircraft model on the boulder of the memorial are made of original parts of the crashed Lancaster.

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      May 26, 2024

      The monument in Hunsel (municipality of Leudal) consists of a boulder on which a V-sign and a small model bomber are attached. The V-sign consists of one of the support beams of the Lancaster's wings. The image of the bomber was cast from parts of one of the engines found in the area. The whole stands on a brick base made of natural stone. A memorial plaque is attached to the boulder. The monument stands on a circular stone square.

      The monument was unveiled on 4 May 2009 by the deputy mayor of the municipality of Leudal, Mr A.J.M. Walraven.

      Here, on the

      morning
      of
      July 21, 1944,

      Lancaster ME
      858 of the 514th
      Squadron of the

      Royal Air Force

      fell. All seven
      crew
      leaders
      lost their lives here.

      In the early morning
      of 21 July 1944
      Lancaster ME
      858 of the 514th
      Squadron of the
      Royal Air Force
      crashed here.
      All seven
      crew
      members
      lost their lives.

      WE WISH FOR OUR FREEDOM

      F/O D. Millar 28 yrs. Pilot
      Sgt. N. Derham 25 jr. Flight Engineer
      F/O D.O. Brown, RCAF 29 Jr. Navigator
      Sgt. H.M. Glansford 23 jr. Air bomber
      Sgt. G.H. Holt 22 jr. Wireless Operator
      Sgt. W.E. Blore 36 jr. Midupper gunner
      Sgt. H.E. Long 20 jr. Rear turret gunner

      “FOR OUR TODAY THEY GAVE THEIR TOMORROW”

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        June 13, 2024

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