Date: 1940 Aug 02/03			A/C Type: Wellington IC		SN: R3202		Code: KO-J		A/C Nickname:
File: 123		Airforce: RAF		Sqn/Unit: 115 Sqn			Mission/Raid: Hamburg
1	Pilot	P/O Reginald T. Gerry            Oldebroek via Rottum					9
2	Navigator	P/O Ronald W. Pryor                     Uithuizen					10
3	WO/AG	F/Sgt. R.J. Ruffell-Hazell                MIA					11
4	Bomb aimer	Sgt. James Dempsey                      Delfszijl					12
5	F/Engineer	Sgt. J.M. Croft                                 MIA					13
6	Tail gunner	P/O Sidney J. Wilde                       Delfszijl					14
7							15
8							16
Crashed in the North Sea above the Frisian Islands.

P/O Gerry's body washed ashore on a very remote small Frisian Isle, named Rottumeroog (uninhabited sandbank). Only a few German soldiers there.
He did not wash ashore alone! A British Army search and enquiry unit exhumed the graves 1947 and reburied them in Oldebroek, which was their base at that time.
Please read our website file 'Cemetery Oldebroek' for more info. Search on: Cemeteries - Lake Area Cemeteries - Oldebroek.


Sources:

-Burial file Rottumeroog (bits and pieces)
-Burial file Oldebroek "Eekelenburg"
-Site CWGC





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