In the corner of some Foreign field.

After my blip yesterday I decided to pay a visit to Portobello cemetary to try and trace the graves of the German Aircrew shot down over Portobello on 161039.
I spoke to a very helpful chap (Graham) who was busy digging a grave when I arrived.He informed me that the bodies had been exhumed in the 1950's and thought to have been taken back to Germany, although he believed that they were actually taken and re-buried in England.
Some research on the web confirmed that he could be right, as there is a large German cemetary in Staffordshire where a lot of the bodies were taken there from other sites after the war.
He did however show me the journal of buriels (photo left) showing the names, and the site where they were buried (photo centre).Photo right is also at the cemetary.
The 3 young men were Unteroffizier Seydel, Flieger Schleicher, and Gottlieb Rowalake.
There are several plots of young men buried in the cemetary, cut down during both World Wars, and it's a sobering experience to consider it's massive emotional effect on the families who survived and endured, it's a criminal waste that these lessons still have not been learned by succesive governments.