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wr" 16 -- Seugog Citizen -- Tuesday, N ber 8, 1994 z Dutch town honours Cartwright pilot executed by the Nazis in World War 2 More than half a century after he was executed in cold blood by the Nazis, a monument to the memory of a former Blackstock man was unveiled in the Dutch town of Tilburg. RCAF Flying Officer Roy E. Carter, who grew up just south of Blackstogk, was one of three Allied airmen executed by the Nazi 8.D. on the morning of July 9, 1944 as they waited to be moved from a "safe house" in Tilburg by members of the Dutch underground. He was 23 years of age at the time of his execution. On October 17 this year, citizens of Tilburg unveiled the granite monument in memory of F/O Carter; Flight Lt. Ronald (Ronny) Walker of the RAF, and Flying Officer Jack Stewart Nott of the Royal Australian Air Force. F/O Carter grew up on a farm near Blackstock, where the Asselstine Country dealership is now located. On the night of June 16, 1944, he was one of the crew on a Halifax bomber of 431 Squadron that was shot down by a German night fighter near Aa: bach Six of the crew were able to bail out. Two died in the fall, two were captured almost immediately and the two others, luding F/O Carter ged to elude the Germans. Carter ended up in the Tilburg home of 60 year old Jacoba Maria Pulskens, who was well known for her efforts in helping downed Allied airmen avoid capture. Flight-Lt. Walker had been on a Lancaster that crashed June 21, 1944, the only survivor among the crew of seven. He too, with help from the Dutch and Belgian resistance, ended up in the Pulskens house. F/O Nott was the navigator of a Halifax bomber that crashed the night of June 16 on a road between Boxtel and St. Oedenrode. Only three in the crew of eight were able to bail out. Two were captured on the ground, but F/O Nott escaped and was taken to the Pulskens house. The Nazi S.D. officers had captured members of the Belgian underground on July 8. They found false passports, maps and other material used in pes and the Nazis forced the captured men to reveal the hiding place of the pilots in Tilburg. The next morning, July 9, a Sunday, as the three Allied flyers were having breakfast and making the final preparations for their dash to freedom, the house was raided by seven Nazis in civilian clothes. The three were herded to the yard behind the house and shot. One of them, F/O Nott was wounded and tried tosget into the house. He was killed in the doorway leading to the kitchen. Jacoba Pulskens, 60 years of age at the time, in an act of defiance went upstairs and brought down a new Dutch flag which she used to covey the bodies. She had been keeping the flag in hiding for the day when the Netherlands would be liberated from the barbaric ion of The bodi.s of the the murdered airmen were first taken to a nearby hospital (where an alert doctor took photos of them) and later removed to the concentration at Vught, where they were cremated, presumably to remove any evidence of the crime that had taken place at the house in Tilburg. Because the remains of the three airmen were never found, they are still listed officially as "missing in action." A plaque in the memory of the three airmen and the lady who lost her life trying to save them, was erected at the house in 1947, Th= unveiling October 27 this year of the large granite monument is part of the events marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. The t is made from the Nazis She was arrested, spent seven months in solitary confinement and then carted off to the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp where she died in the gas chamber in February, 1945. rare stone left-over from the ice age, called "wandering stone." It depicts the wandering of airplanes and their crews. The design was submitted by a well known Dutch artist. There is a foot-note to this story of heroism in Nazi occupied Europe during the last war. : The 8.D. (Security) and Gestapo men who carried out the arrests and executions on July 9, 1944 where eventually tracked down and tried in front of a British Military Court in Essen, Germany in June, 1946. On evidence of former Dutch resistance members, and the photos of the bodies taken by the doctor at the hospital, four Nazis were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Evidence was entered that one of the accused, a certain Michael Rotschopf, who did the actual shooting, had much experience as a "street fighter" in Russia and would be a suitable candidate to send on a mission of murder. Relatives of F/O Carter who live in Canada, attended the unveiling ceremony in Tilburg last month, as did the son of Jack Nott. There were speeches by local politicians, honour guards, the flying of national flags and the playing of national anthems for Canada, Great Britain, Australia and the Netherlands. SCUGOG PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUSTEE xy Authorized by the CFO, Bob Brooks Campaign