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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Saturday 10 July 10 17:55 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Barry, I'll certainly give those a try too.
My sister's father had been on several bombing raids - and had survived hand injuries he sustained. So to die on a routine flight, not on operations, is very sad. Celia

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Saturday 10 July 10 09:09 BST (UK)  »
I have also e-mailed the RAF Museum but have received no reply yet. Hopefully they will respond. Maybe I should write a letter on paper too?
I did mention the Air Ministry form 1180 because Flakdodger had identified it to help me.
LARG responded quite quickly and I was very grateful for that.

I was not aware that there may have been an inquest for this crash, were all subjected to one?

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Thursday 08 July 10 14:17 BST (UK)  »
Great news came for me today.
My thanks to all who made so many positive suggestions.

The LARG group secretary has written back to me with a map produced by a colleague that has the exact location of the 1943 crash, in the middle of the ring road (A15/A46) in Lincolnshire due south of Riseholme, not in Nettleham itself but between Riseholme and Lincoln Roads.

It a place where a tribute will be laid one day by someone in the family I'm sure.

All good wishes, Celia

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Saturday 03 July 10 10:58 BST (UK)  »
Dear Flakdodger (Dave),

Most of the information you kindly offered I did have already because I began researching this all over a decade ago via the MOD and at Kew, but new things turn up on-line month by month. The internet is such a treasure trove nowadays, but can be dangerous if you don't check primary sources too. I suppose I'm lucky that my original research came before stuff was "out there" and has been confirmed by other web-sites.

So, very many thanks for the leads you have suggested.

Over the years I have seen the information publicly available on 300 Squadron links but was worried about naming others, wasn't sure of the ethics of that. There were family conversations about the two who shouldn't have been there in the Wellington but they were often in a "don't tell the children" hushed tone.

I had almost given up on taking this thread any further until another link (with someone who was a pilot) made me think again of other ways of moving on. Then the Channel 4 programme about 303 Squadron last week made me even more determined to locate the crash site, as a matter of respect, if it's possible.

I visit a family grave in Suffolk every few years so a detour through Lincolnshire would be manageable one day.

I will check all the leads you have suggested.
Thanks for your time and careful thoughts,
Again, Celia

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Wednesday 30 June 10 22:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for the positives.
Official records are one thing but I would love to have a clear location.
As children we went (as did lots of Midlanders) to Skegness, Mablethorpe and the like so we were probably very close, very often.
The official grave is at Newark with those of other brave Poles who died in action. (Last night's Channel 4 programme was very poignant to me as my own father stayed in the UK and had to join the resettlement corps - which was not an easy thing to do. The programme didn't go into that.)

Any help you people can offer is more than welcome. Short of wandering round the highways and byways of Lincolnshire and asking local people this is my best shot. So, thanks again.

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Wednesday 30 June 10 10:58 BST (UK)  »
 :)Thank you Charlotte.
How kind of you to be so encouraging.
I sent a s.a.e. so I may be lucky.

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Lincolnshire / Re: WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Wednesday 30 June 10 09:58 BST (UK)  »
Sergeant Air Gunner 783767 Stanislaw Kaminski aged 27 years
300 Squadron
crash February 20, 1943
Place of death recorded as Nettleham Field Farm.
"Vickers Wellington BK305  (BH-E) Crashed near Lincoln."

I recently googled "Nettleham Field Farm, Nettleham RD" again only to find that in 2010 the farm still exists. Field Farm House, Lincoln Road, Nettleham, Lincoln LN2 2NG, with aerial views of the farm is available on-line. When my sister traced the death certificate in 2006 this information had not been available.
I have written to the owners but maybe that is a bit intrusive?

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Lincolnshire / WW2 RAF squadron crashes
« on: Tuesday 29 June 10 19:38 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to locate the exact site of the crash that ended the life of my sister's father in February 1943.
I have all relevant war records etc. but not the precise place that the plane went down.
Is anyone aware of any local records? I wrote to the parish four years ago and they were very sympathetic but could not help.

I know that Lincolnshire folk regularly saw WW2 air sorties limp home or crash land.

I would be grateful for any pointers. Any ideas?

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Australia / Re: Nicholas Frederick Stapleton DRIVER
« on: Saturday 19 June 10 16:45 BST (UK)  »
If you send me their e-mail address I will pass it on to their uncle of course.

Thank you again.

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