{"id":3526,"date":"2019-10-16T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T22:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:28:25","slug":"new-memorial-to-be-unveiled-in-the-netherlands-lancaster-aircrew-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"New Memorial to be unveiled in The Netherlands. (Lancaster Aircrew Memorial)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/we_tread_the_same_path-copy-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/we_tread_the_same_path-copy-3.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/we_tread_the_same_path-copy-3-660x95.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/we_tread_the_same_path-copy-3-768x110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/we_tread_the_same_path-copy-3-840x121.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Aircrew Remembrance Society has been cooperating with Dutch Historian Jaap Geenson for many years. In 2014 our chairperson David King was able to identify items recovered by Jaap on the Dutch coast line, as coming from a Lancaster aircraft. A memorial to the crew of this Lancaster II, LL720 408 Sqn, will now be unveiled on the 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2019. The relatives of two of the crew members have been located, those of F\/O J. Bonneville, RCAF and\u00a0\u00a0P\/O E. Dramnitzki, RCAF. The search continues for relatives of the other five. Please contact the site if you are in contact in anyway with anyone related to this crew, or have any information that you feel may help in tracing them.<\/p>\n<p>Link to remembrance page for this crew &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalairforcelosses.com\/Royal_Air_Force_Losses\/1944_Losses\/%2019-20.02.1944-No.-408-Squadron-Lancaster-II-LL720-FLt-Winn-Location-Paal-the-Netherlands.\/\">19\/20.02.1944 No. 408 Squadron Lancaster II LL720 F\/Lt Winn Location: Paal the Netherlands.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/stacks-image-1c75c3b-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/stacks-image-1c75c3b-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/stacks-image-1c75c3b-1-548x365.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/stacks-image-1c75c3b-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> The wing section as found by Jaap and identified as the Aileron hinge attachments by David King. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aircrew Remembrance Society has been cooperating with Dutch Historian Jaap Geenson for many years. In 2014 our chairperson David King was able to identify items recovered by Jaap on the Dutch coast line, as coming from a Lancaster aircraft. A memorial to the crew of this Lancaster II, LL720 408 Sqn, will now be unveiled on the 9th\u00a0November 2019. The relatives of two of the crew members have been located, those of F\/O J. Bonneville, RCAF and\u00a0\u00a0P\/O E. Dramnitzki, RCAF. The search continues for relatives of the other five.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-408-squadron-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}