BARNEVELD (VOORTHUIZEN) GENERAL CEMETERY
Gelderland
The Netherlands
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.19394, Longitude: 5.60773
Location Information
Barneveld is 32 kilometres north-west of Arnhem and 16 kilometres due east of Amersfoort. Voorthuizen is a village administered by, and 7 kilometres north of, Barneveld on the Amersfoort-Apeldoorn road. The cemetery is 455 metres north of the village, on the western side of the road to Pulten, and the two British graves are in the north-western part of the cemetery.
Barneveld is 32 kilometres north-west of Arnhem and 16 kilometres due east of Amersfoort. Voorthuizen is a village administered by, and 7 kilometres north of, Barneveld on the Amersfoort-Apeldoorn road. The cemetery is 455 metres north of the village, on the western side of the road to Pulten, and the two British graves are in the north-western part of the cemetery.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
In 1944 on the night of 9/10 October a DeHaviland Mosquito was on an intruder mission and crashed at the "Hunneweg" ivo VOORTHUIZEN and BARNEVELD at 23:30 o'clock.
The plane was from 613 Sqdn, SY-. , HR362. The plane left Lasham airfield
160738 Flying Officer
James Holt Siddell
613 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9th October 1944.
James Holt Siddell was born on 24 April 1916, the son of James Ernest Siddell, a banker, and his wife Anne. In April 1934 he followed in the footsteps of his father by joining the staff of Westminster Bank at its branch in Upper Brighton, Wallasey. He transferred to Birkenhead branch in 1937, and also spent time at Rock Ferry and New Ferry branches. He moved to Weaste branch in August 1939. A bank colleague later recalled him as 'a livewire, he was a keen, good worker, ever keen to help on any job.'
In December 1939 Siddell left the bank to join the Royal Army Service Corps. He transferred to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in October 1941, becoming a Sergeant Navigator. He was commissioned in October 1943. He was just starting his second operational tour when he was killed on a bombing raid over Germany on 9 October 1944. Flying Officer Siddell was 28 years old and left a widow, Betty, whom he had married in 1942.
At the time of Siddell's death his younger brother Henry, also a member of staff of Westminster Bank and also a Flying Officer in the RAFVR, was missing in the Far East. It later emerged that he had been killed in 1942 and is buried in Jakarta War Cemetery
James Holt Siddell
613 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9th October 1944.
James Holt Siddell was born on 24 April 1916, the son of James Ernest Siddell, a banker, and his wife Anne. In April 1934 he followed in the footsteps of his father by joining the staff of Westminster Bank at its branch in Upper Brighton, Wallasey. He transferred to Birkenhead branch in 1937, and also spent time at Rock Ferry and New Ferry branches. He moved to Weaste branch in August 1939. A bank colleague later recalled him as 'a livewire, he was a keen, good worker, ever keen to help on any job.'
In December 1939 Siddell left the bank to join the Royal Army Service Corps. He transferred to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in October 1941, becoming a Sergeant Navigator. He was commissioned in October 1943. He was just starting his second operational tour when he was killed on a bombing raid over Germany on 9 October 1944. Flying Officer Siddell was 28 years old and left a widow, Betty, whom he had married in 1942.
At the time of Siddell's death his younger brother Henry, also a member of staff of Westminster Bank and also a Flying Officer in the RAFVR, was missing in the Far East. It later emerged that he had been killed in 1942 and is buried in Jakarta War Cemetery
41762 Squadron Leader
Donald Maitland Wellings, D. F. C.
613 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9th October 1944.
Donald Maitland Wellings, D. F. C.
613 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
9th October 1944.
