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Leopold Mielecki

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Leopold Mielecki

Birth
Death
22 Nov 1945 (aged 34)
Buckland St Mary, South Somerset District, Somerset, England
Burial
Ilminster, South Somerset District, Somerset, England GPS-Latitude: 50.9372119, Longitude: -2.9133719
Plot
D2 Grave 5
Memorial ID
View Source
F/LT
7665

Deaths Dec 1945 Mielecki Leopold 34 Chard 5c 348

Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn

This plane, on it's way to India with a Polish crew, left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height and crashed into a field at Castle Farm, Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately and a survivor who died on the way to hospital.


Crew and Passengers:

F/Sgt Jan Brzenski (Flight Engineer)

F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC

F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)

F/O Gordon Jenkins Myers, (Co-Pilot)

A G Quick

P J Biles

C H Buck

H W G Staunton

A J Birch

R C Anderson

R O Anderson

J H Attwood

D B Benjamin

J Brewis

W A Charlton

A E Clark

L J Curry

H Donovan

L H Downes

L R Dyer

P Fairbairn

W Gent

O Williams

R E C Williams

B W Fox


F/LT
7665

Deaths Dec 1945 Mielecki Leopold 34 Chard 5c 348

Liberator VIII – Serial KH125 – 53 Sqdn

This plane, on it's way to India with a Polish crew, left Merryfield aerodrome near Ilminster one foggy morning & failed to gain sufficient height and crashed into a field at Castle Farm, Buckland St Mary in Somerset killing 26 occupants immediately and a survivor who died on the way to hospital.


Crew and Passengers:

F/Sgt Jan Brzenski (Flight Engineer)

F/O Stanislaw Kleybor(Nav) DFC

F/O Antoni Wize(W/Op)

F/O Gordon Jenkins Myers, (Co-Pilot)

A G Quick

P J Biles

C H Buck

H W G Staunton

A J Birch

R C Anderson

R O Anderson

J H Attwood

D B Benjamin

J Brewis

W A Charlton

A E Clark

L J Curry

H Donovan

L H Downes

L R Dyer

P Fairbairn

W Gent

O Williams

R E C Williams

B W Fox



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  • Maintained by: Cass
  • Originally Created by: EHL
  • Added: Jul 21, 2013
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114166277/leopold-mielecki: accessed ), memorial page for Leopold Mielecki (26 Mar 1911–22 Nov 1945), Find a Grave Memorial ID 114166277, citing Ilminster Cemetery, Ilminster, South Somerset District, Somerset, England; Maintained by Cass (contributor 49672063).