Memorial Crash Avro Lancaster ND357 Kolhorn

This memorial consisting of a propeller of the aircraft and the symbol of 56 Pathfinder Squadron commemorates the perished crew of the Avro Lancaster Mk. III ND357 GT-G which crashed about 100 metres from this site on 14 January 1944 at about 8.35pm.

The aircraft had taken off earlier that day from Warboys airfield towards Braunschweig Germany. After the bombing, the aircraft was shot down on the way back by Oberleutnant Dietrich Schmidt's Messerschmitt Bf 110G. The entire crew of seven was killed in this incident and is buried at the Bergen op Zoom War Cemetary.

The crew consisted of:

Nelson Reuben Mansfield, Pilot, aged 31, New Zealand
Charles Henry Lawrance, Flight Engineer, aged 30, United Kingdom
Edward Sudbury Alexander, Navigator, aged 24, Canada
Bernard Aidan Trott, Bomb Aimer, aged 29, United Kingdom
Charles Roy Swinney, Radio Operator, 26 years, United Kingdom
Victor Norman Cawdery, Back turret gunner, aged 20, United Kingdom
George William Penrose, Tail gunner, 30 years, United Kingdom

The memorial is only accessible by water.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Chris Dijkshoorn