Sgt. John Alston Proctor was an air gunner shot down in World War 2, and his family in Guelph now know where his remains are buried
They now know the burial location of their relative killed in the second World War, thanks in part to work being done by a veterans association in the Netherlands.
"Exactly that night, Friday the 30th of April, 1943, they wrote in their diary they heard a big bang. It rained debris on their caravan."Those four bodies were later recovered and buried in that city's cemetery, but their families hundreds and thousands of miles away were not aware of it. It took a couple years, but Slangen said progress has been made on finding the relatives of the vast majority of the 45 servicemen.
She told GuelphToday she was in disbelief that people were still working hard to find relatives, and found it reassuring that people recovered the bodies and looked after the grave sites all these years. But she does plan to learn more. Breese is already making plans to fly over to the Netherlands to visit the site, meet with Ruud and the others doing the work to link these fallen war heroes with their loved ones, wherever they are.
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