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Local family: remembers

@ A grave in Denmark
will be honored on
Remembrance Day by
many in Castlegar

“He does not lie in Flander’s
ld

Beneath the poppies high
Nor on a barren mountain top
Where no one passes by.
He rests not under the ocean
Cruel, cold and so unfair
To be forever missing
Leaving us to wonder where.
We were the fortunate ones
Six months we had to wait
Till “Missing in Action” became
final
And we learned of their fate.
We know the spot, the story
A field of a farmer — A Dane
The cruel ones dug a hole to hide
The seven crew and plane.
But the brave Danish patriots
Crept out in darkest night
And defied their conquerers to
plant
Rose bushes at the site.
And roses bloomed the next sum-
mer
When hostilities did cease
And coffins, prayers and mark-
ers
Saw our loved ones at last at
pease.
— Written by Ivy Riley Hill
of Castlegar, shortly before her
death in 1986, in memory of
her first husband, Virgil Lee
Riley who was killed in action
over Denmark on Oct. 15, 1944.

Carolee Riley Pi vinboer-osrk
The moon was
a sky dotted with a reaper rain
clouds the night of Oct. 15,
1944, when 37 aircrafts set out
from bases in England to lay
mines in the Kattegat be-
tween Jutland (Denmark) and
Sweden.,
In a_ Halifax Aircraft
MZ901/QB-N — with “Nan”

Orval Riley of Kaslo finds his uncle Virgil’s grave at Idom,
Denmark which was given a headstone by the Danish Resistance

after the Second World War ended.

painted on the nose — were
seven Canadians on what had
become a routine operation for
them. However, their
navigator had booked off sick
that night and one of the crew
confided they a less com-
f with 1

Of four airerake downed
that night, only one crewman
survived, evaded capture and,
aided by the Danish Resis-
tance.

Among the crew of the Hal-
ifax was Flyer Officer Virgil
Lee Riley of Castlegar, the el-
dest at 33, married 10 years
with two daughters, six-year-
old Sherrel (Koreen) and my-
self, Carolee (Fitz-Gerald),
then aged two.

Father had enlisted in
1942.

The “Nan” plunged to the
earth in flames and exploded
between two farms near Idom.

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Fortunately mines carried in
the Halifax were thrown clear
and sank into soft ground.

The Germans, who then oc-
cupied Denmark, moved in
and sealed off the area, in-
spected the wreckage and
buried the crew oni the crash
site. They used a common
grave with no coffins or cere-
mony following orders issued
in 1943 by the German High
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stop to burying the enemy
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church yards because of.Ger-
man civilian sufferings from
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Defying the conquerors,
members of the Danish resis-
tance slipped out at night to
plant rose bushes to mark the
site of the common grave.

The war ended seven
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