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Second Website 2012 - 2018

New Beginnings
(AircrewRemembranceSociety.co.uk)

Due to this forced unforeseen necessity, 2012 would see the rebuild of our site using an alternative domain to enable us to further our work.
My son Alexander King reestablishing our site as web developer and designer to further the availability of our research and remembrance commitments.

BD - April 2013 Proposed Memorial to B-17 Pilot 1st Lt. Don DeLisle after information request on the 4th April.

Proposed Memorial to B-17 Pilot 1st Lt. Don DeLisle after information request on the 4th April.

Our Chairman David seen here when chairman of The Booker Aircraft Museum, in the museums U.S.A.A.F. section. Items from the B-17 in Question recovered in the early 80s, that include a section of wing with national insignia, and propeller blade can be seen on the right.

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

BE - May 2013 Buchanan family visit to England, Wellington R1451 crew Memorial.

On Tuesday 28th May a party of five relatives of F/Lt M.S. Buchanan D.F.C., his sister, three nephews and a niece, called in to pay their respects at the crash site memorial to the crew of Wellington R1451. The family were on their way to Leeds to visit the crash site and grave of F/Lt  Buchanan, who was sadly killed in the crash of Halifax MZ810. The organizer of the trip was John Buchanan, (second left wearing bush hat in photo above), who is a relative by marriage to Patricia ne ‘Johnston’ (Niece of P/O S.M. Johnston) the Navigator killed on Wellington R1451.

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

BH - August 2013 David King Arranged to meet with relatives from Australia

Relatives from Australia visit pilots grave and the site where his Mitchell aircraft crashed.

On the 22nd of August our Chairman David King arranged to meet with Jane McGrath and her husband Peter in Oxford, on the occasion of Jane’s pilgrimage to England on behalf of her mother, to visit the graves of her Uncle Flying Officer John Ledgerwood and his crew. Upon arriving at the Botley Cemetery Oxford, David was able to show Jane to the grave locations, whereupon framed photos, crosses and flags prepared by A.R.S. were placed upon the graves to co-inside with Jane’s Visit. Later that morning David drove Jane and Peter to the crash site of John’s Mitchell Bomber at Steeple Claydon, a distance of some 25 miles from the cemetery.

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

CH - August 2014 Aircrew Remembrance Society stall at The Bucks County Show.

To further the remembrance work of the society, a stall was obtained at The Buck’s County show in August. Many new contacts were made with farmers and as a result two further crash sites are now under investigation. We were also able to assist numerous members of the public with research information relating to loved ones, and further remembrance pages are soon to be added to the site. A special thanks to Alex King and Ryan Stevens for organising the event, and the distribution of many leaflets on behalf of the society.

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

DI - September 2015 Aircrew Remembrance Society Memorial to fallen German Aircrew.

On a quiet Scottish hillside Irmtrud Hiestermann stood in wonder at the site before her, with her son Henning at her side at last she could stand at the place where the father she had never known, had tragically lost his life so many years ago.
At the time of her father Paul Rogge’s death, Irmtrud was just six months old. Personal items found at the crash site at this time, included a treasured photo of Irmtrud that Paul had carried with him, returned to the family by the Red Cross, this tragic artefact the only remaining token of her father’s love she would ever know.



Category: Memorials & Remembrance

EE - May 2016 Research From our Good Friend Henning Continues into the loss of Ju88 Wknr. 144550

Following our visit to Scotland to remember a Luftwaffe crew and a missing man, we have remained in touch with the grandson of the pilot (Paul Rogge) Henning Hiestermann. Henning has worked tirelessly to assist us with further research into this tragic loss. Working for us in Germany his work is priceless! Reported here are his latest investigations in relation to the radio operator on his grandfather’s crew, Karl Brinkman.

Report from Henning 1st May 2016.

Today I was for a few hours in Holzhausen/Porta Westfalica. This is the village where Karl Brinkmann, the radio operator of my grandfather’s crew was born. I visited the church and met after the service the pastor Schierbaum. He showed me a book in which all the fallen Holzhausener of World War II are listed. I took a picture of the bookside (see attached file).


The church where Karl Brinkmann is remembered, and their book of remembrance.


Category: Memorials & Remembrance

EG - July 2016 Research From our Good Friend Henning Continues into the loss of Ju88 Wknr. 144550 with visit to Ernst Glück sister.

Visit to the Sister of Ernst Glück 14.07.2016 by Henning Hiestermann.

Thursday, 14.07.2016 Henning Hiestermann with Elisabeth Lewien,(born Glück), the youngest sister from Ernst Glück

Dear Friends,

Yesterday evening I get back from my trip to southern Germany. On Thursday, 14.07.2016 I visited Elisabeth Lewien, born Glück. She is the youngest sister from Ernst Glück, the observer of my grandfathers crew. She lives in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart and is now 86 years old. The other three sisters of Ernst have already died. Unfortunately, Elisabeth has mild dementia, but she can still remember her brother very good. He has always cared very much about his smallest sister and played often with her. She can still very well remember that he has often worn her on his shoulders. Read more -

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

EI - September 2016 Bomber Command Veteran Records His Memories.

Following research undertaken by our webmaster Alexander King, we were honoured to be invited to the home of Roy and Shirley Maddock-Lyon, to record Roy's exploits as a Flight Engineer flying Halifax's with No.10 Squadron Bomber Command. A three hour audio tape has now preserved Roy's story. Now aged 91 Roy gives his harrowing account of being shot down over Denmark, his evasion with the help of the Danish underground, and his work with them to bring valuable secret information back to England after escaping to Sweden, and returning in the bomb bay of a Mosquito on the Stockholm ball bearing run. 

(Left) Alex King with Roy Maddock-Lyon (Right) Roy during training in WW2

Category: Memorials & Remembrance

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