Family of World War Two Lancaster bomber reunited with his bracelet 74 years after it rose to surface of concentration camp ash pit
'Of the seven crew, F/O Jones died in the crash and Sergeant Idwal Williams, one of the two Gunners, did not survive his parachute jump. '
'On July 31 he was taken to the nearby Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and immediately hanged. '
'One plane, tail number NE164, launched from an air base in North Killingholme near Grimsby. '
'The Wireless Operator Sergeant Donald Hunter, Flight Engineer Sergeant James Drury and Gunner Sergeant Roy Cumberlidge were taken prisoner and survived the war in a camp in Poland. '
'Sergeant Frederic Harold Habgood, the plane’s bomber, was betrayed by a local woman to the Gestapo. '
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'Of the seven crew, F/O Jones died in the crash and Sergeant Idwal Williams, one of the two Gunners, did not survive his parachute jump. '
'On July 31 he was taken to the nearby Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and immediately hanged. '
'One plane, tail number NE164, launched from an air base in North Killingholme near Grimsby. '
'The Wireless Operator Sergeant Donald Hunter, Flight Engineer Sergeant James Drury and Gunner Sergeant Roy Cumberlidge were taken prisoner and survived the war in a camp in Poland. '
'Sergeant Frederic Harold Habgood, the plane’s bomber, was betrayed by a local woman to the Gestapo. '
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