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#OTD 18th January 1943 the last five survivors of the disastrously failed Operation Freshman glider-borne sabotage attempt on the Rjuken heavy water plant in #Norway were murdered by their German captors. L/Cpl Wallis Jackson, 21, 9 (Airborne) Field Company Royal Engineers... 1/5
...from Leeds. Alongside him Sapper Tom White, 23, 9 (Airborne) Field Company Royal Engineers, of Gilfach, Glamorgan and Sapper Johnny Walsh, 21, 9 (Airborne) Field Company Royal Engineers, of Stretford, Lancs; ‘…let perpetual light shine upon him.’... 2/5
Also shot in cold blood #OTD in Trandum forest near #Oslo and dumped in an unmarked grave were Sapper James Blackburn, 28, 9 (Airborne) Field Company Royal Engineers from Isleworth, Middlesex and Sapper Frank Bonner, 25, 9 (Airborne) Field Company Royal Engineers. The five... 3/5
and 'charioteer' A/S R Evans captured wounded on Operation Title, had been held in Grini concentration camp in civilian clothes and were shot on the orders of Heinrich Felis, head of the Gestapo in Oslo, #OTD. Their unmarked grave site was noted and monitored by Norwegian... 4/5
...patriots so that, on liberation, the bodies could be exhumed and given a decent burial in @CWGC Vestre Gravlund in Oslo. Where they remain to this day. Spare them a thought today - their murders were brutal and shameful. I try to visit their graves when I'm in Oslo. #WW2 5/5
