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Pilot Officer GEORGE SMITH

Service Number: 53583
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

97 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY

8. G. 30.

Germany

The final resting place of Pilot Officer George Smith in the Durnbach Military Cemetery._x000B__x000B_RAF Lancaster JB221 belonging to 97 Squadron took off on 26th November 1943 from RAF Bourn in Cambridgeshire with a crew of seven onboard for a bombing mission over Frankfurt in central Germany but failed to return to its home base. The aircraft was later reported to have crashed 1 mile east of the village of Brandau, 25 miles south east of Frankfurt. Three fatalities were recovered at the time and buried locally in Brandau cemetery and later reinterred at the Durnbach Military cemetery. The four other crew members could not be found and were commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede, UK._x000B__x000B_Picture by Mike Drewett

Photographer: Mike Drewett

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jeannie Smith of Buckie, Banffshire; husband of Dorothy Vivien Smith (nee Hamilton).
  • Personal Inscription A BRAVE SON OF SCOTLAND KILLED WITH HIS CREW IN ACTION OVER BRANDAU AYE REMEMBERED
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Buried or commemorated at

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Bayern Germany
Number of casualties: 2970
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