Newcastle-on-Tyne, EnglandSergeant J Bremner (RAFVR) was originally missing, presumed killed in action. Having no known grave, Sergeant Bremner was commemorated on the Runnymede War Memorial
Sergeant Bremner was one of eight crew of a Halifax bomber which came down near Berlin during a night raid on the city in 1944. Four crew members were killed in action, but the bodies of Sergeant Bremner, then 21, and Canadian Warrant Officer 2nd Class Charles Dupueis were never found.
Sergeant Bremner was buried with full military honours 64 years after his plane was shot down after his remains were found by the Halifax's Navigator, Pilot Officer Reginald Wilson, who had survived the crash and became a POW
Pilot Officer Wilson, returned to Germany in 2005 to meet historians and eyewitnesses who could point him to the crash site. The plane's wreckage, scattered across dense woodland, had lain undiscovered for six decades. He later took a team of metal detectors into the remote woodland and found the rusted wreckage hidden in dense undergrowth, along with Sergeant Bremner's skeletal remains. It took two years to DNA test the bones, but were confirmed as Sergeant Bremner from Elswick in Northumberland
Pilot Officer Wilson, from Chigwell, Essex, and fellow survivor, Rear Gunner Sergeant John Bushell, aged 84, a retired civil servant, from Oakley, Bedfordshire, travelled to the 1939-1945 Berlin War Cemetery for the ceremony.
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