Hope it's successful. "A search is underway for the family of a tragic World War Two airman whose body has been found buried in a cemetery 16 miles from where his plane crashed in the Netherlands. Sergeant Roy Penry William, 21, died alongside five others when his Wellington Bomber was shot down on July 24, 1941, while flying back from a night bombing mission over German port town of Emden. The radio operator was initially thought to have been buried close to the crash site in Bozum, Netherlands, but after years of research it was uncovered in a churchyard 16 miles away. Sgt William's remains were discovered alongside those of his crewamtes in a communal grave at Leeuwarden Cemetery in the north of the Netherlands. The Ministry of Defence is now organising a service in September to re-dedicate two new headstones at the cemetery in memory of each individual crew member of Wellington R1397. All of the men's families have been located except for that of Sgt Williams - whose last known address was in Bridgend in South Wales. The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), part of the MoD, is now urgently appealing for any family members of Sgt Williams to come forward so that a personal inscription can be included on his headstone. His remaining family will also be invited to attend the service in the Netherlands." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3181387/MoD-appeal-family-lost-British-airman-killed-WWII-come-forward-remains-discovered-churchyard-Netherlands.html#ixzz3hWpAGcEC
