Commonwealth War Graves - Dyce Aberdeen Scotland - 23/3/2018

            Today 23/3/2018 I visited the ruins of St Fergus chapel in Dyce Aberdeen Scotland, now known as Dyce Old Churchyard .

A cemetery is adjacent to the building ruins , Commonwealth War Graves .

There are ten German graves in Dyce Cemetery. It is assumed that all of them relate to Luftwaffe personnel.

They are the crews of three aircraft which failed to make it back after missions over Aberdeen.

Aberdeen was the most frequently bombed city in Scotland. It was attacked 34 times and 178 people were killed.

The heaviest attack was on 21st April 1943. In a pre-planned air raid 25 Dornier 217s of the Kampf-Geschwader Group 2 swept into Aberdeen from the north of the city as dusk fell causing damage in the Woodside, Hilton, Cattofield, Kittybrewster and George Street areas.

The toll was heavy : 98 people were killed and a similar number seriously injured.

Dyce airport was a Royal Air Force station during the 1939-1945 War, and an extension on the western side of the old churchyard was chosen by the authorities for the burial of casualties from the air station.

Only airmen are buried in this reserved plot. 

There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1914-18 war in the churchyard. 

There are a further 45 of the 1939-45 war, 1 being an unidentified airman of the R.A.F. There are 11 Foreign National war burials and 4 non-war Service burials here.

Taken on: March 23, 2018

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