N.Z. AIRMAN'S GRAVE FOUND IN DENMARK
Received Wednesday, 10.35 a.m. COPENHAGEN, June 17. Flying Officer Dick Smith, of New Zealand, and Warrant Ofncer George Topcliff, of Australia, are among names disclosed today of eleven Allied airmen whose graves have been found in Nprlund Forest, near Aalborg. The men were shot down in a British aireraft on April 18, 1945. M. Rasmussen, leader cf the local resistance movepient, told Reuter that since the liberation the resistance movement had been trying to find the grave. Finally it obtained.- a sketch map .from the former .German commander locating :the grave near the monument whieh the resistance movement raised' on the spot where the aireraft crashed. M. Rassmussen added that a worker named Christiansen, who claimed that he was gifted with second sight, then went to work and on June 14 found the grave. In the dead of night, with searchiights a party began to uncover the grave. The bodies were found on June 15 and were placed in white c.offins, whieh had been brought to the forest edge. The British,' military mission due socn, will make further enquiries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1947, Page 5
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