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Lancaster PB672 - Has anyone any details?

Hi, as the title says, I am looking for details on Lancaster PB672 of (I believe) 227Sqn. In particular I am looking for details of the crew. I know that they were buried at the crash site but were moved to a military cemetery afterwards. Would anybody know when this move would have happened or where I can find out when?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Lancaster PB672 - Has anyone any details?

'Lancaster Story of a Famous Bomber' by Bruce Robertson. shows;

32 MU. October 1944.
227Sq. October 1944.
Missing 4th December 1944.

Sadly,she did not appear to last long.

Mervyn.

Re: Lancaster PB672 - Has anyone any details?

F/O E I Britton
Sgt E W Matthews
F/Sgt H R Thomas
F/Sgt R C Hase RCAF
F/O R J Dunstan
F/Sgt L H E Fairhead RAAF
Sgt B Wood

One of the crew, Fairhead, was RAAF. Unfortunately neither his service file nor his casualty file has been digitised, but it maybe worth asking for a copy of his casualty file for more details.

Go to http://naa12.naa.gov.au/Login.htm choose Guest, and type in his service number (436696)

However, as the CWGC website states

Quote:

Choloy War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service for the re-burial of casualties recovered from isolated sites, communal cemeteries, and small churchyards in north-eastern France where permanent maintenance of the graves was not possible. In 1950, for the same reason the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found it necessary to move in to this cemetery more than 100 graves from a number of churchyards and civil cemeteries in the same area.

So it seems likely that move occurred either in the immediate post-war period, or in the 1950 move. The CWGC aren't normally very forthcoming when it comes to providing details of re-burials but it maybe worth trying anyway:

http://www.cwgc.org/contact.asp?menuid=7

Re: Lancaster PB672 - Has anyone any details?

Just to add to Amrit's post, asking (and paying!) for the Aussie file to be digitised will be a good starting point for finding out details: the service record and casualty file should give you particulars of the crash and circumstances of burial etc of the bodies. If you want to see some examples of both, PM me and I'll e-mail you copies.
Regards
Max