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My Grandfather Ronald was appointed an Executive Officer in the Inland Revenue at Somerset House.Upon the outbreak of war he was evacuated with his department to North Wales.There he joined the Home Guard, but despite his work being of national importance, which would have secured excemption from service, he volunteered to join the RAF.He joined in 1941, trained in Scotland and obtained the rank of Sergeant-Observer. He had only just obtained his 'wings' and had not fully completed his operational training when he was selected to take part in the second 1000 bomber raid on Bremen on the night of 25/26th June 1942 from which he failed to return . He
flew in a Wellington and was based at RAF Pershore at Throckmorton,Worcestershire('Crafty tricks of the war'-the recent 大象传媒2 programme was filmed here).

My grandmother was 5 months pregnant with my father when Ronald went missing. In the January of 1943 it was finally learnt that he and the rest of the crew had been shot down on the return journey from Breman. He is buried in a small village cemetary in Holland.
My Grandmother always kept detailed diaries and it was obviously incrediably moving to read about this period of time in her life.She also kept in contact, up until her death, with some people from the Dutch village who had witnessed the crash and who had subsequently maintained their graves.

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