Retzow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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The cemetery lies at the end of a tree lined avenue

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke

 Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
The CWGC section is in the NE corner

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From L to R:
49Sqn Camm, Palmer and four unknowns
50Sqn Hartley and two unknowns

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There are gravestones for 18 known German soldiers

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 Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
Here lie in peace 18 known and numerous unknown dead

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To the victims of war and despotism

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The middle gravestone is marked:
"Four Airmen"......members of the crew of Lancaster JB727.

The unknown airmen commemerated above are four of the
five unaccounted for crew members of JB727:

F/O G.T. Young

Sgt H. Conrad

Sgt D.D.R. Dallaway

F/O R. Stobo

Sgt D.F. Prusher

There is no record/evidence as to who the four airmen were
and therefore the name of the missing airman is unknown.

 Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
This gravestone, second from the right, is Sgt M Hartley of DV376.
DV376 was a 50Sqn Lancaster based at Skellingthorpe
which was lost on the 16th of February 1944 during a raid on Berlin.
Two further members of the crew are buried in Berlin.

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The extreme right grave is marked:

"Two Airmen"......... Unknown members of the crew of Lancaster DV376

 Photographed by Marion Campey

The Webmaster and his wife May photographed with
Herr Heinrich and Frau Margarete Ross.
Frau Ross took care of the graves in the days of the DDR when
the CWGC was unable to access the cemetery.
 

Sgt P O Camm

F/L C J E Palmer 

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