{"id":15455,"date":"2023-10-22T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/?page_id=15455"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:51:13","slug":"collyer-albert-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/collyer-albert-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Collyer Albert Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Collyer | Albert Henry<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>First names<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Albert Henry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Age<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>25<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Date of birth<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>1920<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Date of death<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>12-04-1945<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Service number<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>907967<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Rank<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Sergeant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Regiment<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Grave number<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Grave Graf 536\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Albert-Henry-Colleyer.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Henry Colleyer\"><\/p>\n<h3>Albert Henry Colleyer<\/h3>\n<p>Albert Henry Colleyer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Graf-Albert-Collyer.jpg\" alt=\"Grave Albert Collyer\"><\/p>\n<h3>Grave Albert Collyer<\/h3>\n<p>Grave Albert Collyer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Albert is the son of Albert Thomas Collyer and Jessy Collyer of Peckham, London. Husband of Eileen Collyer of Peckham. Father of Eileen Josephine Collyer, who was born 8 December 1945.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Airstrip B 89 Mill<\/h4>\n<p><em>The airfield on the moors<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday 17 September 1944, Allied paratroopers land at bridges on the route from Eindhoven to Arnhem. Simultaneously, a land offensive starts to force a corridor to contact airborne troops. Field Marshal Montgomery&#8217;s plan Operation Market Garden had begun. A daring attempt to rid the Netherlands of the Germans as quickly as possible and end the war soon. As is well known, the plan stalled at Arnhem.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of that stalling at Nijmegen and Arnhem, the advance came to a halt and, due to the harsh winter weather, months hardly progressed and the fighting went back and forth.<br \/>Volkel airfield had been so heavily bombed by the Americans and British in late August and early September 1944 that it was abandoned so that it could be repaired.<\/p>\n<p>To provide air support to the 1st Canadian Army, it was necessary to add airfields in the south-east of the Netherlands. To relieve Volkel and due to the fact that airfields Keent and Rips were no longer usable due to bad weather conditions, new locations were sought.<\/p>\n<p>One such field was constructed in the winter of 44-45 in Mill, on a spur of a moor and was code-named B 89. The aim was to make this field more permanent, so reinforcement was needed during construction. That reinforcement is formed by a field company of the 50th HQ Troops Engineers, the 681st Road Construction Company and the 217th Company Pioneer Corps. The neighbouring villages of Zeeland and Langenboom housed the armies, including surrounding farms. A lot of inhabitants of Langenboom and Mill had to leave hearth and home to make way for the airfield.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11005\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Britse-militairen-bij-Nissenhut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Britse militairen bij nissenhutten in Mill\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"wp-image-11005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Britse-militairen-bij-Nissenhut-1.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Britse-militairen-bij-Nissenhut-1-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Britse-militairen-bij-Nissenhut-1-768x441.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>British military at nissen huts in Mill<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With might and main, work began on 1 January 1945. Many tractors and scrapers move 300,000m3 of soil. 140 alcove huts (a shelter with an arched corrugated iron roof) and 72 barracks were built. Under harsh weather conditions and with the help of Dutch carpenters, the entire airfield with 1 runway and 2 rolling runways is brought into readiness. On 8 February 1945, 146 Wing arrives and on 8 and 9 March the 35th Army Cooperation and Photographic Reconnaissance Wing. Albert Henry Collyer is a sergeant with 35 Wing.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12058\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vliegveld-Mill-B89.jpg\" alt=\"Airfield Mill B89 photo (source Myllesheem Foundation)\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" class=\"wp-image-12058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vliegveld-Mill-B89.jpg 747w, https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vliegveld-Mill-B89-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Airfield Mill B89 photo (source Myllesheem Foundation)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The RAF Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF), part of the Royal Air Force consists of 4 Groups, 2, 83, 84 and 85. The Groups are divided into Wings. Each Wing consists of squadrons. Group 2 and 85 were in Belgium and France. Group 83 and 84 were in the Netherlands.<br \/>Group 83 was based at Keent airfield, among other places. Group 84 ended up in Mill, among other places.<\/p>\n<p>One of the squadrons of 146 Wing is the 266 sqn \u2018Rhodesia\u2019 with code letters ZH. The squadron of which Squadron leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/culligan-patrick-joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Joseph Culligan<\/a> is part.<br \/>The pilots of the 35th carried out many tactical reconnaissance flights over the Rhine with their Spitfires and Mustangs, strafing tugs and other vessels.<br \/>The pilots of the 146 Wing strafed many targets with Typhoon fighters, including German headquarters and bases, railway lines, railway bridges, airfields and missions against flak batteries, from which air transports were shelled.<br \/>After 16 April, both Wings move to other airfields.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 April 1945, Albert Collyer sadly died in a military road accident.<\/p>\n<p>He was working at 35 Wing headquarters and is buried in Grave General Cemetery in grave 536.<\/p>\n<p>His headstone reads:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bitter grief<\/strong><br \/><strong>A shock severe<\/strong><br \/><strong>To part with one we loved<\/strong><br \/><strong>So dearly. Loving wife<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/culligan-patrick-joseph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Joseph Culligan<\/a> of 146 Wing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/lee-oliver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Lee<\/a> of 125 Wing are also buried here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/War-graves-at-cemetery-in-Grave2.jpg\" alt=\"War Graves at the cemetery in Grave Christmas Eve 2024\"><\/p>\n<h3>War Graves at the cemetery in Grave Christmas Eve 2024<\/h3>\n<p>War Graves at the cemetery in Grave Christmas Eve 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Grave-at-Chrismas-Eve-2024.jpg\" alt=\"War grave Albert Collyer Christmas Eve 2024\"><\/p>\n<h3>War grave Albert Collyer Christmas Eve 2024<\/h3>\n<p>War grave Albert Collyer Christmas Eve 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sources and credits<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Book \u201cVliegen en vechten bij de Maas 1940-1945\u201d; Oorlogsgeschiedenis op de grens van Noord-Brabant en Gelderland ; auteur Wim Boeijen.<\/p>\n<p>Website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heemkundelangenboom.nl\/2e-wereldoorlog\/vliegveld-op-de-heide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heemkunde Langenboom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sommers.nu\/historiek-vliegveld-b89-langenboom-de-kuilen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sommers.nu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Studiegroep Luchtoorlog 1939-1945<\/p>\n<p>Photo Albert Henry Collyer sent by his grandson Terence Emmett<\/p>\n<p>Research Anny Huberts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- 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Husband of Eileen Collyer of Peckham. Father of Eileen Josephine Collyer, who was born 8 December 1945.<\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p><\\\/p>\\n\n\n<h4>Airstrip B 89 Mill<\\\/h4>\\n\n\n<p><em>The airfield on the moors<\\\/em><\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p>On Sunday 17 September 1944, Allied paratroopers land at bridges on the route from Eindhoven to Arnhem. Simultaneously, a land offensive starts to force a corridor to contact airborne troops. Field Marshal Montgomery's plan Operation Market Garden had begun. A daring attempt to rid the Netherlands of the Germans as quickly as possible and end the war soon. 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That reinforcement is formed by a field company of the 50th HQ Troops Engineers, the 681st Road Construction Company and the 217th Company Pioneer Corps. The neighbouring villages of Zeeland and Langenboom housed the armies, including surrounding farms. A lot of inhabitants of Langenboom and Mill had to leave hearth and home to make way for the airfield.<\\\/p>\\n[caption id=\\\"attachment_11005\\\" align=\\\"alignnone\\\" width=\\\"600\\\"]<img src=\\\"https:\\\/\\\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Britse-militairen-bij-Nissenhut-1.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Britse militairen bij nissenhutten in Mill\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"344\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-11005\\\" \\\/> <strong>British military at nissen huts in Mill<\\\/strong>[\\\/caption]\\n\n\n<p>With might and main, work began on 1 January 1945. Many tractors and scrapers move 300,000m3 of soil. 140 alcove huts (a shelter with an arched corrugated iron roof) and 72 barracks were built. Under harsh weather conditions and with the help of Dutch carpenters, the entire airfield with 1 runway and 2 rolling runways is brought into readiness. On 8 February 1945, 146 Wing arrives and on 8 and 9 March the 35th Army Cooperation and Photographic Reconnaissance Wing. Albert Henry Collyer is a sergeant with 35 Wing.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<\\\/p>\\n[caption id=\\\"attachment_12058\\\" align=\\\"alignnone\\\" width=\\\"600\\\"]<img src=\\\"https:\\\/\\\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/03\\\/Vliegveld-Mill-B89.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Airfield Mill B89 photo (source Myllesheem Foundation)\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"404\\\" class=\\\"wp-image-12058\\\" \\\/> <strong>Airfield Mill B89 photo (source Myllesheem Foundation)<\\\/strong>[\\\/caption]\\n\n\n<p>The RAF Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF), part of the Royal Air Force consists of 4 Groups, 2, 83, 84 and 85. The Groups are divided into Wings. Each Wing consists of squadrons. Group 2 and 85 were in Belgium and France. Group 83 and 84 were in the Netherlands.<br \\\/>Group 83 was based at Keent airfield, among other places. Group 84 ended up in Mill, among other places.<\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p>One of the squadrons of 146 Wing is the 266 sqn \\u2018Rhodesia\\u2019 with code letters ZH. 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