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GRØNHØJ: "I am very impressed and grateful. Danes commemorate victims of the war in a fantastic way."

David Wilson Geddes has arrived from the western part of Scotland to the central part of Jutland to see where his uncle Lewis Wilson Morrison and 6 other airmen of
the Allied bomber crashed after having been hit by a German night fighter near Grønhøj on the night before 25 September 1942.

And this Scotsman, 62, has come especially to participate in the ceremony today at 1400 hrs, when a big stone in memory of the 7 airmen who all died in connection
with the crash will be unveiled at Grønhøj Kro.

"It is very great for me," David Geddes states. Just like his uncle he has been in the United Kingdom Armed Forces. He was a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps before he became a dental surgeon.

He was not born until 8 years after his uncle lost his life, and Uncle Lewis was barely mentioned in the family in the decades after World War II.

"My father also served in the war - both in North Africa and Italy, and later in India and other places, but my parents could not talk about the war," David Geddes relates. He only knew that his uncle was buried in Frederikshavn in Denmark.

Not until 3 years ago, when the last of his parents had died, did he try on the internet to clear up the circumstances. The breakthrough came when assisted by a
Danish former fellow dentist he found the retired teacher Anders Straarup, Randers, and his website www.airmen.dk. Here Anders Straarup has submitted a great
material about the more than 1000 Allied airmen who are buried in Denmark, including the 7 who lost their lives near Grønhøj.

The description of the Grønhøj air crash is partly based on an interview in Viborg Stifts Folkeblad some years ago with Gudrun Laigaard who as a 22-year-old
experienced the air crash.

The crash site is a deserted place about 1500 metres west of Grønhøj. As late as in the autumn of 2012 Anders Straarup and some helpers found pieces of wreckage which now are on display in the small Memorial Room that will be opened together with the unveiling of the Memorial Stone at Grønhøj Kro.

The crash site is marked with a pole erected by Kongenshus Mindepark with an inscription from the Lancaster Team comprising Anders Straarup, innkeeper Gregers Laigaard, Grønhøj, and Knud Gaarn-Larsen and Gerhardt Hørdum, both of Frederiks.

The Lancaster Team has collected money for the carving of the memorial stone which was donated by Grønhøj Vognmandsforretning.

Speakers like the Mayor of Viborg, Søren Pape Poulsen, and Colonel Steen Ulrich, Commander of Helicopter Wing Karup will participate in the unveiling ceremony, which is open for everyone. Also 10 people with family relations to the crashed airmen will attend the ceremony.

To David Geddes this is one of the very great days of his life. "To me and my family light has now been thrown on a dark chapter," he states.