210747 Sgt. Caspar Harald "Jerk" Jurgensen Royal Air Force 106 Sqd. from:London (d.3th Jan 1943) Casper Jurgensen was the uncle I never met. He flew a fateful 13th mission and was shot down by a night fighter and the whole crew perished. I visited Appledorn cemetary in the 70's with my mother to see his grave. After leaving the station, we didn't go to a large supermarket for flowers but chose a little shop down the road. When we told the owner why we were there, he showed us a photo of the grave they looked after during the war and it was my uncle's. Very strange and kind of lovely at the same time. The German's made them move the body from the local cemetary to the war one and later some of the commonwealth crew were moved to a Canadian cemetery.
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