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Introduction

This pages lists the Operation Freshman personnel and their final resting place. I have also provided a description of the cemetery or memorial that they are commemorated on. The list of personnel was extracted from numerous document at the PRO. The details of their final resting place was provided by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site.

All the personnel either died in the crash of the two guilders, or were subsequently murdered by the German occupation forces in Norway.

Those soldiers who have no known grave are commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial. These soldiers were murdered by the Germans and their remains dumped in the sea. Their bodies have never been recovered. Click here to read about the war crimes trial of those people involved in their murder.

The other servicemen are buried in three cemeteries in Norway: Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Oslo Western Civil Cemetery and Helleland Churchyard.

Stavanger (Eiganes) Graves

This section list the Freshman personnel buried in Stavanger (Eiganes) Churchyard, Norway. The details were supplied from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site.

Oslo Western Civil Cemetery Graves

This section list the Freshman personnel buried in Oslo Western Civil Cemetery, Norway. The details were supplied from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's web site.

Able Seaman Evans was captured after an earlier raid which attempted to sink the Tirpitz. As outlined in the report, they were all initially kept at Grini Concentration camp before executed together at Trandum.

Helleland Churchyard

This section list the crew of the 2nd Halifax which towed Glider No. 2 (click here for a list of the crew of this glider). All these service personnel are buried in Helleland Churchyard.

Helleland Churchyard (Leif Jørum)

Flight Sergeant A. Buckton(Leif Jørum)

Pilot Officer G.W. Sewell De Gency(Leif Jørum)

Flight Sergeant G.M. Edwards(Leif Jørum)

Flying Officer A.T.H. Haward(Leif Jørum)

Flight Lieutenant A.R. Parkinson(Leif Jørum)

Flight Lieutenant A.E. Thomas(Leif Jørum)

Brookwood Memorial

This section list the four Freshman personnel who are commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial, Brookwood, Surrey. After they were murdered by the German Forces (click here for an account of their deaths), their bodies were taken out and dumped at sea. Consequently, they have no known grave.

Their exact date of their murder is unknown. At the war crimes trial of their murderers, the charge stated that they were killed sometime during November 1942.