MY grandfather, ex-Staff Sergeant Len Pember, took part in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden on Sunday, September 17, 1944. As a member of D Squadron GPR he took off from RAF Keevil in a glider towed by Stirling LJ874 of 299 Squadron.
I wish to contact surviving members of the Stirling crew. Two crew members were from Yorkshire: F/O F A Chiplin 128015 (Nav) from York and F/Sgt D Kemp 1111695 (Wop) from Heckmondwike.
I should like to hear from any of the crew, or their relatives, hoping they may have relevant information or photographs.
I can be contacted by e-mail at douglas@sos.org.za or via my UK contact: George Smith (01759) 306712, or at the address below.
Douglas Reed,
c/o SOS Children's Villages,
PO Box 1019,
Bromhof 2154,
South Africa.
Updated: 11:32 Saturday, February 19, 2005
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