AIRMEN’S GRAVE IN HOLLAND

Evening Star, Issue 26102, 16 May 1947, Page 7

AIRMEN’S GRAVE IN HOLLAND

TYPICAL INSTANCE OF DUTCH CARE (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.; LONDON, May 15. At the request of the mother of a dead airmail, Mr AV. N. Perry, of Cambridge, one of the two New Zealand delegates attending the conference of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers at Schevenimren, Holland, visited the grave of Plymg-ollieer I). Taylor, of Cambridge, at" Ha an, near Grocnigen. Flyingofficer Taylor, after four years’ active service with the Royal Air 1 orpe-j was shot down oil February 2, 1945, while piloting a Spitfire and strafing enemy transport in Holland. Mr l’errv found that a neighbouring Dutch family had thade the New Zealander’s grave their special care, and had planted it with a mass of primulas and hyacinths, all of which were now in bloom In front of the grave, and of those of four British airmen buried nearby. a stone tablet had boon elected bearing a memorial verse by Rupert Brooke. , ... Mr Perry stated that the care which this Dutch family had given to the .rrave was typical of the practical sympathy shown all over Holland. On the second anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, which occurred last week, the graves of Allied airmen and soldiers in all parts of Holland were decked with masses of flowers.