Date of birth:

October 28th, 1910 (Lemberg, Saskatchewan, Canada )

Date of death:

December 21st, 2006

Service number:

R 157721

Nationality:

Canadian

Henry Walter Klatt served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. His RAF Short Stirling IV bomber (registration EH897) was shot down by flak while on a supply mission during Operation Market Garden on 19 September 1944.

Of the eight crew members, one managed to jump with his parachute before the plane crashed into a barn just south of Koningsweg N311 near Schaarsbergen, just north of Arnhem. Only two were injured, one seriously.

After being captured, he was first detained in a regular prison in German-occupied Arnhem. He then spent more than seven months as a prisoner of war, first in a Stalag Luft camp in Bankau (now Poland) and then in Lückenwalde near Karlsruhe. According to relatives, Henry once said that in the prison camp he dreamt of his mother's cinnamon rolls.

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Crash Location Stirling EH897

Arnhem - Gelderland