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A memorial stone to British soldiers in Vester Vedsted 
   
World War II must never be forgotten says Verner Sørensen
who sponsors the memorial stone. Unveiling on Saturday.
By Helle Møller Larsen  helle@ugeavisen-ribe.dk

Vester Vedsted - A decreasing number of people remember World War II,
but what happened then must never be forgotten, two elderly people of Vester Vedsted think. That is why on their initiative a memorial stone has been erected 
to the British soldiers who perished, when a Lancaster aircraft crashed in the
night before 21 April 1943.

Aase Kjems had the idea about the memorial stone. She is 92 years old and remembers what happened then, relates Verner Sørensen, 80, who sponsors the
memorial stone.

He was 11 years old, when the plane crashed at Fløjdiget.  - I remember the scream of my mother and the moo of the cows.

- Today young people have no idea about what happened during World War II. I'd also like to help that to be changed, Verner Sørensen emphasizes.
- It is not a matter of course that we are so well off that we are today, he and Kjeld Andreasen agree.

He has assisted Verner Sørensen in the work with the memorial stone coming into existence. In that connection Forsberg-Ribe Stenhuggeri has also been
extremely helpful.

To North Germany
When the plane crashed it was heading for North Germany to bomb North German towns, but the Germans had discovered the project of the British soldiers and
therefore they shot down the plane.

7 British soldiers died that night, 6 on the spot and 1 was taken to the hospital in Ribe where he died later that night.

All of the 7 British soldiers were buried in the Fourfelt Cemetery in Ribe on 30 April.

The memorial stone will be unveiled by Aase Kjems at 10 a.m. on Saturday 21 April.

All are welcome to the unveiling. Subsequently there is a gathering in the youth high school. (Ungdomshøjskolen ved Ribe in Vester Vedsted)