Commonwealth War Graves Corbais

At the General Cemetery in Corbais, Municipality Mont-Saint-Guibert, are six Commonwealth war graves from World War II.
These are the graves of:

Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) Maurice Alfred Barrett, 568443
Flight Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Bernard Carroll, R/77956
Flight Sergeant (Obs.) James Kirkwood, 969453
Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Ronald Francis Stone, 405338
Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Victor Henry Twining, 1210421
Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Eric Humprey Williams, 1168354

On July 29, 1942 at 2306 departed from Topcliffe airfield, the Halifax R9442 with the mission a raid over the city Saarbrücken in Germany. The aircraft was shot down over Belgium by the German night-fighter Reinhold Eckardt, then the plane crashed down at 0300 in Corbais. All crew members died in the crash. They are all buried in this cemetery. Very special about this crash is that also Reinhold Eckardt was killed, he crashed in his Messerschmitt Bf 110 after he was hit by machine gun fire from the Halifax.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
• Photos: Luc van Waeyenberge

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