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SERGEANT
EDMUND RAMSBOTHAM
Service Number: 1523017
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
249 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 29 April 1945
Location Suhorje (Pivka county) Slovenia
Age 22 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY
5. D. 1.
Serbia
From another site (forum post): "The local people can say that the pilot was dead when they came to the plane, so they buried him at the village cemetery, but no one knew who was by name (at the time)."
Carmelo Lenzi and Janez Volk (witness of Edmunds crash, he was still a kid at that time) begin to search for his name in 2019.
Janez provided critical information about the crash and Carmelo Lenzi found who the pilot was, also contacted the niece and provided all information to the Park of military history in Pivka that ordered the monument and is carrying a comemoration with the British Embassy.
https://www.parkvojaskezgodovine.si/en/commemoration-of-the-crash-of-the-spitfire-mh980-near-suhorje/
