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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.