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 Post subject: Memorial planned for remote war grave on Ben More
PostPosted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:29 pm 
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Efforts are being made to contact the families of six airmen buried at one of the most remote war graves in the UK. The crew from Scotland, England and South Africa died when their Avro Anson crashed on Ben More, a mountain in the north west Highlands, in April 1941. It was almost a month before their bodies were found.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission wants to let their families know that a memorial is to be placed where the men were buried close to the crash site. The crew were flying their twin-engined aircraft on a night-time cross country navigation exercise out of RAF Kinloss in Moray on 13 April. They crashed at 701m (2,300ft) on Ben More, a Munro near Inchnadamph, in Sutherland.


The full story can be read on BBC Scotland News!

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