my grandfather & his crew are buried in east Germany
unfortunately my Nan passed away before the Berlin wall came down so
never knew . his final resting place.

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Feros Ferio

Don, is there a memorial to your grandfather and his crew in the UK?

If not and you have all their details etc. we'd like to have something made and placed in the LAHC's Bomber Command garden of remembrance. This could all be done in plenty of time for Em's Day on the 29th May.

If you can't attend Em's Day we'll take some pictures of the memorial and dedication.

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Chris & Jane Jessop
Founders of UKBEG April 1998

www.ukbuellgroup.co.uk

Chris you have pm.

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Feros Ferio

We're going to go ahead with a memorial to Don's grandfather and his crew . This will be placed in the LAHC Bomber Command garden of remembrance and dedicated at sometime during Em's Day.

83 Squadron history: http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercom ... uadron.cfm

RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire: http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafbramptonwyton/ ... ection.cfm

We'll arrange a visit to RAF Wyton sometime this year, details TBC.

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Chris & Jane Jessop
Founders of UKBEG April 1998

www.ukbuellgroup.co.uk

thank you Chris.

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Feros Ferio

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If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

Nice.

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'98 M2 Razorback, it's a keeper.

Fantastic Read about Don's grandad then CJ's suggestion last night and burst into floods of tears My emotions have been pretty shot since my accident and something like this is the perfect storm, thanks CJ Feel really proud of our community here

Steve

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Back on the road again!

I too felt moved when I read about Don's grandfather and his crew. I did some research and together with some additional details from Don, I've managed to put together the story of what happened to Lancaster B.111, JB284, OL-C, on the 23rd November 1943.

A total of 764 aircraft took part in that mission, including 10 Lancasters (630 Squadron) from East Kirkby. 2 failed to return to East Kirkby.

Bomber Command aircrew losses in WW2 were staggering, 55,573 were killed and all of them were volunteers ....

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Chris & Jane Jessop
Founders of UKBEG April 1998

www.ukbuellgroup.co.uk

True Heroes All!

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See God, Then back off! Kevin Schwantz 1991

The futility of war saddens me at times, with the vast numbers lost
The battle of the Somme
" Britain's first-day casualties, a staggering 19,240 died."
by the end
" In all, for the six miles that British soldiers advanced, they lost more than 400,000 while in all the battle saw 1.3 million casualties."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/ten-f ... the-somme/

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Buell Ulysses XB12X 06/08

Barney in for his MOT tomorrow! Hope Lil Em is smiling down on us? Pity the poor MOT guy if he fails it. There will be a bolt of lightning thrown down!

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See God, Then back off! Kevin Schwantz 1991

After getting soaking wet and freezing cold! Barney passed his MOT with no advisories!!

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See God, Then back off! Kevin Schwantz 1991