Daily Express - 02.09.2019

14 Daily Express Monday, September 2, 2019

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MONEY

“dogged and

unconquerable

resistance” as

Foreign Secretary

Dominic Raab joined

more than 40 world

leaders in Warsaw.

Mr Johnson said:

“Today, Poland lives

and thrives in the

heart of Europe, just

as Churchill

foretold.”

“I bow my head

before the Polish

victims of Germany’s

tyranny. And I ask

forgiveness.”

A minute’s silence

was observed to

remember them.

Prime Minister

Boris Johnson

praised the Poles’

By David Pilditch

By News Reporter

local council snubbed their calls to

exhume the bodies, claiming it would

be too disruptive and costly.

But the stalemate ended when a TV

documentary was made and a new

party took control of the council.

Ms Dutton told how she had

received a letter telling her the Dutch

government would shoulder “100 per

cent of the costs” for the recovery of

30 to 50 planes across the country –

including her uncle’s Stirling.

She said: “It was a relief because, at

last, we could give them a proper

resting place.”

Killed in

action...

Sgt Maurice

Pepper was

one of six

men who

died when

their plane

was shot

down over

Holland

in 1942

Tragic... the RAF crew being briefed just weeks before their fateful mission

Missing RAF

airmen to get

proper burial

THE crew of an RAF bomber shot

down in Holland during the Second

World War will finally be given a

proper burial after a 20-year battle.

Their families were last night cele-

brating after officials ruled their bod-

ies could be exhumed from the field

where they have lain since 1942.

Sergeant Maurice Pepper, 27, was

one of the six men killed as the

bomber returned from a raid on

Dusseldorf on September 10, 1942.

Last night, his niece Becky Dutton,

65, said: “My mother, if she were still

here, would be thrilled to bits.”

The lost crewmen may have lain

forgotten forever were it not for Joep

Jennissen, a farmhand who helped

clear the crash site, in Echt.

In 1999, he began lobbying the

Dutch authorities to return the bod-

ies and his daughter Marleen took

over following his death in 2003. She

also spent years tracing the airmen’s

families. Both the landowner and

GERMANY asked

Poland to forgive it

for Nazi “tyranny”

yesterday, 80 years

since the start of the

Second World War.

Frank-Walter

Steinmeier, the

President, joined

Poland’s Andrzej

Duda in Wielun, the

city where the first

bombs fell. He said:

Germany asks forgiveness

Steinmeier,

left, and

Duda light

candles

yesterday