Hello Corporal/Tec5, and Christoph, and Mary and Marion, and everyone,
Corporal/Tec 5, this seems truly UNBELIEVABLE and yet I know what you are saying is real! Can you imagine if such a document exists - with history of the Abbey as a Hospital during WW2!
The pictures are beautiful and so respectful.
Dad's Cemetery was small and he felt it was now a small patch of grass that we located when we journeyed there with him in the 1980's. At that time, it was very frustrating for Dad, that no one knew anything about the Abbey being used as a Hospital, and interesting to note Mr. Norton had the same experience. He went back in 1986. He told me that in our phone conversation.
I finally did pursue the B26 organization for 1st Lt. Philip C. Dryden. They had the date in January and not Dec. and their web site did not show a location. They did inform me of the cemetery where he is supposed to be buried. They will forward the information I sent them to an Archivist who is supposed to contact me. My desire is to pay proper respect to Dryden and to be sure that anything known is properly recorded in his history. Then there is a side issue: if Dad buried him in this little homemade cemetery, when and by whom was he moved to this other cemetery over there. Also will Dryden's outfit be able to tell us additional dates for when Siegburg was bombed. However maybe the book that Corporal/Tec5 is aware of will have all of the dates!
I will look the name of the cemetery up and send another message to you all.
Regarding Sergeant Morlock, the document with the description of his death in Siegburg on about 4 February 1945, has also written on it "Memo of 1st Sgt. Dale M. McClara". I contacted the outfit McClara was in and provided them a lttle of the info that I had. I hope maybe to find out where and why he would have been writing this.
But in both of the cases of the 2 men the letter from the National Archives at College Park says they located 3 index references to statements given by my Dad. They also say unfortunately they were unable to locate the case file ...
Bye for the moment,
Jean J