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Old 05-07-2008, 11:27 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Becklingen War Cemetery - Australian RAAF Graves
1394 Australians in the RAAF/RAF are buried in 11 German Cemeteries. They are listed below.


Becklingen War Cemetery - Australian RAAF Graves.

There are 78 RAAF & 2 RAF (Australians) at Becklingen War Cemetery. This is too many to list here however if you can assist, please let me know and I will supply the names.

The first two Australians buried at Becklingen in Germany were these two lads from 218 squadron on 29th June 1941.


BARTON, ALLAN ERNEST ROSS
Sergeant
 400074
 218sq
 29/06/1941
 21
BRYANT, FRANCIS EGERTON
Pilot Officer
 87049
 218sq RAF
 29/06/1941
 27
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

 What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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