Flying Officer Cyril McCall RAAF

In February 2013 I received an email from Mike McCall whose Uncle was killed in the crash. He has kindly provided a few additional details and images.

Sadly, my father, Cyril's brother, who was also in the RAAF and attached to the RAF, passed away before my brother and I found your website and learned what had happened. My father and his brother Cyril had come to England in 1944 and always had trained together in Australia & Canada, but went to separate squadrons on arrival in England. My dad was always hoping to find out what had happened to his brother and where he might be buried. In 1946 he and my mother had driven around Holland looking at war graves, he had heard that he might be buried in the famous allied cemetery in Oosterbeek - but to no avail (the crew have no known grave).

Mike continued.........In talking to the current Herr Schultz he told us that his father (as a young boy) had not been living in the farm at the time of the crash, but was staying in France. He told us that the farm had been set on fire by the burning fuel from the plane, rather than destroyed directly by exploding bombs. It might explain why the family were all safe, because they were in a cellar or bomb shelter, and had time to escape the flames.

Mike McCall standing at the crash site of LM223



The new farm house with the outhouse (as shown on the crash image) on the RHS.



Part of the inscription on the new farmhouse