Memorial Short Stirling BK722

This monument in Maarheeze (municipality of Heeze-Leende) is a rectangular memorial stone. Photographs of three killed soldiers are placed near the stone. The monument is 1 metre 50 high and 1 metre wide.

Text on the monument:

This monument has been erected AD 5-5-2000 to the memory of the crew of a four-engined Royal Air Force Short Stirling.

The airplane came down in flames in the night of 22 June 1943 when heading for the city of Krefeld in Germany.

Three members of the crew were killed:
P/O D. Rich (pilot) Australia
Sgt. S.H. Burrows (radio operator / gunner) Great Britain
Sgt. B. Kermode (bomb-aimer / gunner), Great Britain

Four crew members were taken prisoner:
Sgt. F. Fawcett Great Britain
Sgt. A.J. Small Great Britain
Sgt. J.J. McDonald Canada (died in the camp)
Sgt. H. Hill Great Britain

Let this monument also honor all those who were killed in this area in the Second World War 1940-1945.

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Source

• Text: Rob van Stratum
• Photos: Rob van Stratum