THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION - A NATIONAL TREASURE

 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The CWGC is one of Britain’s finest organisations. They look after thousands of graves of our War Hero’s in many locations. The graves today are kept in a beautiful state with flowers, lawns and well kept headstones.

Hannover War Cemetery Germany, containing the graves of over 2,000 Bomber Command airmen is a fine example of a well kept Cemetery today, maintained by German Volunteers. We offer our thanks.

Our family like so many other families across the world have lost a loved one serving in Bomber Command in WW2. Out father was a crew member of a Lancaster Bomber in WW2.

We salute and praise the thousands of people who serve and maintain the high standards of the CWGC to this day.

It is no surprise that in the chaos and aftermath of a War, when the CWGC has had to deal with the mutilated bodies from the Somme or Flanders Fields or RAF Bombers that crashed in many parts of Germany, it was only natural that the CWGC made mistakes.

We cannot blame the CWGC for these mistakes. What we can blame them for is when they will not rectify some of the more complex mistakes where evidence proves them wrong. To be fair, the CWGC do not make many mistakes but it is fact, that today, many families are still searching for the truth. It is inspirational that after so many people care. The British Legion and many other organisations backed by our wonderful Queen and The Royal Family day each November - “ We will remember them. “

Lancaster Bomber W4276 EM-L from 207 Squadron Spilsby was lost over Ronnenberg Germany after a raid on Hannover on the 18 October 1943.

For 73 years until 2016, the families did not know what had happened.

Then by A TWIST OF FATE, a very compassionate German, Dirk Hartmann contacted the family of the Flight Engineer Sergeant Arthur Hadyn Davies with the news that he had researched the loss and he had evidence to confirm what had happened to the crew of EM-L.

From 2017 to 2020 the sons of Sergeant Davies contacted the CWGC with a mass of evidence and many emails, to prove that in the case of W4275, the RAF / CWGC had made some mistakes.

At last in August 2020, the CWGC replied with a final verdict. The status quo would remain. They rejected all the evidence which Ray and Jeff Williams, sons of the Flight Engineer had presented supported by Ronnenberg Historians, Expert German Researchers, Witnesses to the crash, German Police Reports, Rare Luftwaffe Reports and RAF Official Reports that confirmed where the bodies of EM-L were buried and the coffins which were supplied by a German Coffin maker.

It was a shattering and upsetting decision.

In spite of all this conclusive evidence, the CWGC replied with a series of rebuttals which Ray and Jeff Williams were able to point out their mistakes.

Unfortunately, the CWGC had closed their minds to any explanation. No, this case is closed.

Breakthrough !  In February 2021 the Williams Family received a Letter from Weetbergen Cemetery. It said that no RAF airmen had been buries at Weetbergen in 1943. 

This demolished completely the conclusion made by the CWGC, AHB, JCCC.

The Head of Air Hiastorical Branch has agreed to reopen the Case and we expect a decision in May 2021.

In spite of this previous setback, now our fight for justice goes...........

 

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