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18th April 1944On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Inaudi Jean. (d.18th April 1944)
- Myers Stanley George. Sgt. (d.18th Apr 1944)
- Myers Stanley George. Sgt. (d.18th April 1944)
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Stories from 18th April 1944
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Jean Inaudi. French Army, . (d.18th April 1944) John Inaudi, my husband's grandfather, was sent to Stalag IB in 1940 and then seconded to one of the many Arbeitskommandos working near Preuss Holland (next to a town called Karuviden?), where they extracted peat for plants producing electricity in the region. Then he was assigned to Mulhausen to a butchers 10 miles away. He was in this village with Bruand Edouard, Andrew Bresseau, Jean Bovencourt and Andre Jacquinot. He was repatriated to France in 1942 following the death of his wife.
In 1943 he was arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen Oranienburg, where he died during Allied bombing on 18th April 1944. Manguin Ullern
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Sgt. Stanley George Myers. Royal Air Force, 51 Squadron. (d.18th April 1944) My Uncle Stanley Myers was mid-upper gunner on Halifax Mk III HX350 call sign MH-Y. The aircraft was shot down on the night of 18th of April 1944 in a raid on the rail yards of Tergnier in Northern France by a nightfighter flown by Hauptman Josef Krahforst. All 7 crew were killed. The aircraft crashed near to a small village called Davenescourt and the next morning a small boy called Paul Mercier, who had heard the crash, went to the site, dodged the German guards and removed a small plaque from a part of the wreckage.
My family and I visited the grave, in the Municipal Cemetery at Davenescourt in 1961. I was 11 years old. Paul Mercier, by now Clerk to the Mayor of Montdidier, found out we were there and came to meet us.
He gave the plaque to my father and it has now passed to me. Peter Myers
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