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JUNE 2013
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This month’s issue contains two articles related to the same subject – missing
soldiers from the conflicts of the twentieth century.
The numbers of men who have no known grave are staggering.
Around 300,000 Commonwealth soldiers are remembered on memorials to the
missing of the First World War in France and Belgium alone. From the Second
World War, there is the Bayeux Memorial in France which commemorates
more than 1,800 men of the Commonwealth land forces who died in the
early stages of the Allied offensive in Western Europe and have no known
grave, whilst the land forces panels on the Alamein Memorial, which forms
the entrance to the Alamein War Cemetery in Egypt, commemorate more
than 8,500 soldiers who have no known grave. Further afield, the Singapore
Memorial bears the names of over 24,000 casualties.
As Ken Wright reveals on page 25, the hunt for missing Australian service
personnel continues to this day. As well as examining the work of the Australian
Army’s Unrecovered War Casualties unit, he details a number of case studies
from the First World War through to Vietnam.
In the second article, Paul Kendall provides an in-depth account of the
discovery, identification and burial of Lieutenant John Pritchard and Private
Christopher Elphick, two men of the Honourable Artillery Company who,
killed in 1917, remained missing until 2009. They were buried on 23 April
2013, along with seven other unidentified soldiers.
What is certain is that these men will not be the last to be found and
accorded full military honours. The hunt for the many thousands of other
missing continues.
Martin Mace
Editor
COVER STORY
The Royal Canadian Air Force
made a huge contribution to
the fight against Germany
in the Second World War,
and by the conflict’s end it
was the fourth largest air
force in the world. Indeed,
two de Havilland Mosquito
night fighter crews of 410
Squadron RCAF each had
notable combats, though, as
Andrew Thomas describes on
page 107,
they were a year
apart.
One of 410 Squadron’s
most successful pilots was
Archie Harrington. Along
with his navigator, Flying
Officer Dennis Tongue, on
the night of 25 November
1944 Harrington shot down
three Junkers Ju 88 night
fighters. It is one of those
successes, a Ju 88G-1 of
4/NJG 4, that is depicted
in this month’s cover
painting by the aviation
artist Mark Postlethwaite
GAvA.
(Courtesy of Mark
Postlethwaite;
www.posart.com)
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BACK ISSUES
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DAMBUSTERS 70
– AIMING THE BOUNCING BOMBS
The unique characteristics of Barnes Wallis’ “bouncing
bomb” – Upkeep – and its method of release called
for a way to aim it accurately. As Robert Owen, Official
Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Association,
reveals on the 70th anniversary of the Dams Raid, that
necessitated considerable thought and innovation.
Editor’s Choice:
Page
53
WW1 SOLDIERS BURIED
AT BULLECOURT
In 2009 the remains of Lieutenant John Pritchard and
Private Christopher Elphick were unearthed in a pasture in
the French village of Bullecourt near Arras. Re-interred on
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, the two men belonged to the 2nd
Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company which suffered
heavy losses during two attempts in May 1917 to capture
Bullecourt. Paul Kendall recounts the struggle for this
village, a battle fought amongst its ruins and shell craters.
Page
41
Page
32
Features
25
32
41
47
61
FINDING THE FALLEN
Ken Wright
examines the work of the Australian Army’s
Unrecovered War Casualties unit in its hunt for missing
soldiers.
Under Westminster was a secret establishment that was
officially called the Cabinet War Rooms; to those who
worked there it was “The Hole”.
The story of a young New Zealander who saw his comrades
about to be burned alive during the fighting on Gallipoli in
1915.
CHURCHILL’S SECRET WAR ROOMS
THE GRIEF OF GALLIPOLI
“EDELWEISS” IN A CLOVER FIELD
Andy Saunders
recounts how one
Luftwaffe
bomber fell
into British hands and eventually returned to the air with a
RAF pilot.
David Tibbs MC, a doctor with the 6th Airborne Division,
recalls, in conversation with
Neil Barber,
his arrival and
duties on D-Day.
D-DAY DOCTOR: UNSUNG AIRBORNE HEROES
ISSUE 74
JUNE 2013
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CRACKING THE CODE
Hidden messages in coded wartime letters sent by British
PoWs have been revealed for the first time in seventy years.
In the fourth instalment in a series examining his “Hero of
the Month”, Lord Ashcroft reveals the courageous actions of
Thomas Alderson GC.
Graham Taylor
examines the first call to arms of what
became known as the Pals Battalions.
On 9 January 1940, the Trinity House tender
Reculver
was
on duty in the North Sea when a German aircraft attacked.
Bernard Bale
reveals how Sir Norman Wisdom was
involved in real life drama during the Second World War.
Regulars
6
22
68
79
92
BRIEFING ROOM
FIELDPOST
Your letters.
News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the
UK.
LORD ASHCROFT’S “HERO OF THE MONTH”
TOGETHER TO THE END
troops advance through the Hindenburg Line, 1918.
KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE
BRITISH ARMY 6:
Victory on the Western Front – British
DATES THAT SHAPED THE WAR
IMAGE OF WAR
We chart some of the key moments and events that affected
the United Kingdom in June 1943.
26 September 1940: Blackburn Roc Battle of Britain
Combat
ATTACK IN THE NORTH SEA
NORMAN WISDOM’S WAR
NIGHT FIGHTER ACES
107
MOSQUITO
night fighter crews ofwhichSquadron RCAFhat
Two Mosquito
410
each had notable combats during
they achieved
tricks in one night.
101
RECONNAISSANCE REPORT
A look at new books and products.
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