Memorial De Haviland-Mosquito HR353

This memorial commemorates two crewmembers of the De Haviland-Mosquito HR 353, which was shot down in 1944.

The text on the plate reads:
'THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR OUR FREEDOM

ON 27 NOVEMBER 1944 CRASHED IN THIS SITE
THE HAVILLAND MOSQUITO HR 353
OF THE 464TH SQDN
FROM THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIRFORCE DOWN
WHERE LIFE LOST

W.A. GREENSHIELDS, 27 YEARS RAVEN
AND
E.H. NORMAN, 23 YEARS OLD RAF. '[/ I]

Restoration [/ i]
The memorial was erected by Henk Stalenburg on the Zuiderzeestraatweg in Hattem in memory of two allied airmen who died when their aircraft (Mosquito HR 353) crashed here on November 27, 1944.

• Flying Officer William Alexander Greenshields, RAAF;
Son of Robert Fadie and Clara Geenshields from Port Melbourne, Australia;
27 years old.

There is a Greenshieldsstraat named after him in Zwolle South. He is buried in grave 6 on the Kranenburgerweg in Zwolle.

• Flying Officer (navigator) Edward Harry Norman, RAF;
Son of Edward Richard and Margaret Ellen Norman from Folkstone, England.
23 years old.

He is buried in grave 7 on the Kranenburgerweg in Zwolle.

The location can be found by taking your own road at the Dorcas Winkel opposite nursery Souman on the other side of the Zwolle-Wezep road (80 km away), cross the road and then at 350 to 400 meters on the right side of this private road. At the bottom of the roadside of the A50 motorway, as shown in the photo.

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Source

• Text: Eric vd Reek & Edwin van der Wolf
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne