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Plutonowy
Zdzislaw
Zygmunt
Twarkowski
1 May 1918 -
23 June 1942
Homel, Russia
- Ulrum
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Zdzislaw Zygmunt Twarkowski was born on 1
May 1918 in Homel, Russia. After the German
invasion of Poland, he made his way to
England and joined the Polish Air Force. He
held the rank of Plutonowy, which was the
equivalent of Corporal in the RAF. He
became an air gunner with 301 Polish
Squadron. The squadron took part in the
bomber offensive against Germany.
On 23 June 1942, he and his crew,
F/O Michalik, P/O Dubas, Sgt Kapa and Sgt Meller
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301 (Polish) Squadron
'"Pomorski" |
took off
from their base Hemswell in Lincolnshire in their Vickers
Wellington IV Z1345 GR-D on a raid to Emden.
Around 03.00 a SOS message is received from
Z1345. 15 minutes later, another message that
they are under attack from a night fighter and
have lost their life raft. They are shot down
over sea by a German night fighter and crashed in the Waddenzee off Terschelling. The whole crew
was lost.
All of them washed ashore at different locations
along the Dutch coast, wearing their
life jackets.
On 15 July
1942 Zbigniew Jan Kazimierz Dubas washed
ashore on the Island of Terschelling, the
Netherlands.
Wacław Stanisław Michalik and Kazimierz
Jerzy Kapa both washed ashore and were
buried on 24 july 1942 on the Island of
Schiermonnikoog, the Netherlands.
Józef Alojzy Meller initially washed ashore
on 17 July 1942 and is buried in the Roman
Catholic Churchyard of Nes on the Island of
Ameland, the Netherlands.
Zdzisław Zygmunt Twarkowski washed ashore on
23 July 1942 and he has been buried in the
General Cemetery, at Ulrum, the Netherlands.
He was 24.
(picture by
Wim Bastiaanse)
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