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Sgt. William Walter George Addison
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Documents relating to Lancaster ED627
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List of the operational sorties undertaken by Lancaster ED627 click on image |
The Loss Card for Lancaster ED627 All G15 on the document means that they are dead click on image |
Reverse side of loss card P? 3291 - from IRCC (International Red Cross Committee), quoting German ????: 7dead - Fitzgerald, Pratt, Preston, Toomey, Goodwin + 2 unknown RBI 6504 - 28/8 Lanc. 5 identified + 2 unknown 184/177-183 buried 1-9-43 Schwäbisch Hall - ??????????. click on image |
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List of operations flown by PO. Fitzgerald and probably the rest of the crew. Click on image.
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This the telegram received by PO. Fitzgerald's father telling him that his son was killed on operations on August 28, Note date of telegram, November 2, some two months later. Click on image
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Page 1 of the original Police Report about the crash of ED627 (in German) click on image |
Page 2 of the Police Report (in German) click on image |
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To view an English translation of the Police Report about the crash together with
location maps click here |
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Daily Express newspaper cutting about the crew being bombed by an aircraft
above The aircraft that they were flying in at the time was LM326, EM-Z  click on image |
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This German document, dated June 12, 1946 lists all the bodies of foreigner's buried in the Schwäbisch Hall area. There are a total of 25 including the the crew of ED627. In paragraph 5, in the list below, it gives the names of two crew members of ED627, Preston (Proston) and Fitzgerald (Fritzgerald). The other crew members seem to be unidentified.
Paragraph 6, lists the five crew members of an aircraft of 438 Squadron. These men were Canadian and died in the same area (Jungholshausen) on the same night as the crew of ED627. They were buried on August 29, 1943.
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The German documents and information from Germany about the aircraft lost in the Schwäbisch Hall area on this website has been supplied by Herr Dr. Müller, Archivist of Schwäbisch Hall. Our thanks to him for his help.
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