“In respect for those that gave their lives for our freedom”
Stavne Cemetery, Trondheim - Norway
This cemetery contains the largest Commonwealth War Graves Plot in Norway, and it is here that Archie, and two other members of his crew, Sergeant A M McLaren and Sergeant D Francis are buried. Four members of his crew were never recovered, Sergeant L J Nelmes, Flight Sergeant G H G Murray, Sergeant J F Staff and Sergeant S Palmer, their names are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial which overlooks the River Thames at Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, between Windsor and Egham, Surrey, England. Many of the airmen who lost their lives over Norway during attacks on the German Battleship Tirpitz between 1942 and 1944 have graves here too.
“In respect for those that gave their lives for our freedom”
Stavne Cemetery, Trondheim - Norway
This cemetery contains the largest Commonwealth War Graves Plot in Norway, and it is here that Archie, and two other members of his crew, Sergeant A M McLaren and Sergeant D Francis are buried. Four members of his crew were never recovered, Sergeant L J Nelmes, Flight Sergeant G H G Murray, Sergeant J F Staff and Sergeant S Palmer, their names are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial which overlooks the River Thames at Cooper's Hill, Englefield Green, between Windsor and Egham, Surrey, England. Many of the airmen who lost their lives over Norway during attacks on the German Battleship Tirpitz between 1942 and 1944 have graves here too.