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Hi Kate
My Great Uncle was Sgt Jeffery Matthews the flight Engineer that night, I too am trying find pictures of the crew without any success have you had any luck?

Hi Ben!!

so nice to 'meet' you!
3 of us out of 7 and I have at least pictures of 2 more.  Only need to find Firth and Hallett now.
I'm not good with this site yet, will msg you.

Kate

Hello.  My uncle Sgt Cyril Stapleton was Mid Upper Gunner on this aircraft LM125 EM-G of 207 Squadron that fatefukl evening. I have a copy of a photograph of the crashed Lancaster in Apremont Forest.  It is reported have came sown near to a building La Faisanderie which is in this forest.  I have further information from 207 squadron records regarding the crew of Pilot John Horsburgh Wilson and the events of 4/5 July 1944.

Hello,  I think you have corresponding with my recently located 2nd (??) cousin Hilary?  I will msg you.

Kate

Hi!

Help please, if possible. 
Morning of 5th July 1944 Lancaster bomber LM125 was shot down near Apremont, France.
Story goes that it narrowly missed a house and landed in a tree. 
All crew died and are buried at Creil. 
The house occupants were witnesses and apparently there is a photograph in existance.
I have read somewhere that the witnesses gave their story but I cannot find it.  Some members of my family did, at some point, go out there but of the surviving ones, cannot remember any details.
Can anyone help me with where to go track down the witness statements and, very unlikely I know, any chance of finding the photograph?

Thanks!
Kate

Quote from: ammack on Friday 09 October 15 10:02 BST (UK)

I think the maiden name for Sarah is Fraser?

Annie

Yeep it is i found the marriage tough/fraser somewhere around post 25? If Photobucket was playing i could link it..

   Thanks DebPat but I already have it!  Went and did SP searches after your post and got aways back very easily.

I agree - never give up! I too have had some decade long brick walls that finally came tumbling down after finding the right clue or asking the right person the right questions. New info. becomes available to search all the time. Keep kicking at the can!

Mary

Sometimes these things just take time to shake loose. I have had the odd head banger that has been about for years.... I have solved several though. one took 15 years to get to the bottom of.

Just cos you do not find it at this time.. certainly does not mean you wont ever find it.

xxx

Many thanks for all the support and information to you both and to everyone else that posted!  This site and the people on it are very wonderful!!  I wish I'd found you sooner.
I can't concentrate on my research as well as I want or should do but I have been pottering about since the 1980's and despite one branch of the family vehemently insisting my grandmother was Irish, I've found her approx. 30 years later after I had a moment of 'rebellion' to be Scottish so yeah ... don't listen to people too much. haha

Thanks too DebPat ... I guess I have to subscibe to Ancestry.  The English system confuses me tho, hadn't realised they were not all like SP and do not show certificates.   
But there is more to be found re George McLeod ... no doubt some more relations for my aunt!!!!

Thanks again everyone!
Kate