Fru Emilie Henriksen og hendes mand var
lærere på Boring Skole
her i mange år. Den 10. april 1944 kom en af hendes elever
med
Stanley F. Hodge
fra flyet
LAN ME663 der var styrtet ned ved Aale få timer
tidligere. Hun talte med ham og gav ham et måltid mad, inden han gik videre. Han håbede at kunne komme
til Sverige, men han blev arresteret næste dag.
Han tilbragte krigen i
Tyske krigsfangelejre. Efter krigen fik fru Emilie Henriksen fat i Stanley F. Hodge's
adresse i Australien og skrev til ham. Han blev meget rørt.
Det blev indledningen til en livslang forbindelse mellem ham, hans familie og
andre slægtninge til de øvrige omkomne flyvere. Emilie Henriksen blev ved med at
lægge kranse og blomster ved mindestenen nær Aale
i hele sit liv. Hun og hendes mand havde gennem årene mange besøg af slægtninge
til flyverne.
Veteraner i Royal Australian Air Force tildelte hende deres
særlige æresorden.
Fru Emilie Henriksen lavede
Original 1965 og
47 navne i St. Clement Danes i korssting og syede diskret i et hjørne
EH 1966.
Hun forærede
i 1970 en kopi til Horsens
Kommune, hvor det blev ophængt i byrådssalen i det gamle rådhus i Søndergade
26,
I 2016 kom det videre til Horsens Museum
(her) Sundvej 1A, 8700
Horsens.
For nogle år siden kom der stadig mennesker for at
sidde lidt stille ved broderiet og mindes deres faldne.
(Kilder: En række hjælpsomme menneskers udsagn efter henvendelse til Horsens
Kommune udløst af artiklen 1994
Omsorg for de faldne
fra Anders Lund.)
Flere kasser med breve fra flyveres familier ses
nu på Frihedsmuseet. Det havde hun
aftalt inden sin død.
Frihedskampens Veteraner bragte en nekrolog over hende i FV-bladet, marts 1972.
Se 47 navne og
Google Map HorsensEH47.
Mrs. Emilie Henriksen and her husband
were teachers at Boring School
here for
many years. On 10 April 1944 one of her pupils took
Stanley F. Hodge
from the plane
LAN ME663 which had crashed at Aale a few hours
earlier to her. She talked to him and gave him a meal before he went on. He
hoped to get to Sweden, but he was arrested the next day.
He spent the war in
German POW-Camps. After the war Mrs. Emilie Henriksen
managed to get Stanley F. Hodge's
address in Australia and she wrote to him. He
was very moved. This was the beginning of a lifelong connection between him, his
family and relatives of the other perished airmen. Emilie Henriksen kept laying
wreaths and flowers at the memorial stone near
Aale for the rest of her life. Over the years she and her husband had a number
of visits from relatives of the airmen.
Veterans of the Royal Australian Air Force showed their respect with a special
award.
Mrs. Emilie Henriksen made
Original 1965 and
47 names in St.
Clement Danes in a cross stitch embroidery and in a corner she
discreetly sewed EH 1966.
In 1970 she presented the
Municipality of
Horsens with a copy which was placed in the assembly hall in the old
city hall at Søndergade 26.
In 2016 it was taken to
Horsens Museum
(here) Sundvej 1A, DK-8700
Horsens.
Some years ago people
sometimes
came to sit quietly at the embroidery for some time to remember
the fallen member of their family.
(Sources:Information from a number of helpful people triggered by a mail to the
Municipality of
Horsens to follow up on the article
Care for the fallen
from Anders Lund)
Several boxes with letters
from airmen's families can now be seen at
The Museum of Danish
Resistance 1940-45. She had arranged that before she passed away. Veterans of the Resistance Movement wrote an obituary to her in the FV-bladet,
March 1972.
See 47 names and
Google Map HorsensEH47.
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