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Halifax III MZ901 crashed near Idom 15/10 1944. The crew of seven died. They were Pilot F/Lt
Robert D. Guild, Flt. Engr. P/O Norman A. Smith, Navigator F/Lt Jack Griffin Lee, Air
Bomber F/O Virgel L. Riley, W/Op F/O John Grace, Air Gnr. F/O William E. Jory
and Air Gnr. F/O Hugh J. Laughran.
The ceremony was held outside the church as it could not hold the number of people who wanted to attend. Sermons were held by Vicar H. H. Frank and the British Field Priest Perkins. After interment in a collective grave a salute of honour was fired and a soldier sounded “The last post”. The ceremony ended with the congregation singing the Danish hymn “Altid frejdig når du går”. A cross made from material from the wreckage is found in the cemetery.
Pictures from Rileys album
Navigator F/Lt Jack Griffin Lee
Johann Dreher
Johann Dreher (To the right) visiting Radar Station "Hyäne" at Nørre Lyngby, Denmark August-September 1944.
Hauptmann Johann Dreher died on the night of 3 rd March 1945 close to Elvington Airfield near York while taken part in Operation Gisela. Drehers aircraft clipped a tree and crashed into a farmhouse killing the crew of four plus three people living in the farmhouse. What exactly happened is not quite clear as some sources claims that the JU 88 was hit by flak while other states that it was flying too low. Dreher and his crew rest in Cannock Chase cemetery. Apart from Hauptmann Johann Dreher it were Feldwebel Gustav Schmutz, Oberfeldwebel Hugo Böker and Feldwebel Martin Bechter.
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