WW2 RAF crash site finds
 

Gents,

I hope that you could help with your expertise in badges. I'm German and live in the area of Kleve. I'm interested in researching the unnamed/unidentified aircraft crash site's in my region. At one location I found numerous Stirling aircraft parts and items which belongs to the crew. One metal object is for me still a mystery and maybe you could help.


I already try to match this "badge" with squadrons or commonwealth allies without success.

regards from Germany

Mike

Welcome Mike. Not something I recognise as military. Others may be able to help you though it could be anything owned by a crew member or not even crash related. I'm interested though in your crash research and hope any lost aircrew have known graves. Best wishes, Paul. (ex RAF Laarbruch)

Mile
Looks like part of a lead child’s toy perhaps top of a lead tree toy

Regards

Stephen

It could be part of a toy/model tree perhaps carried by aircrew as a ‘good luck’ talisman.

Here are some examples produced by Britains Limited pre WW2

Tim

That was my first thought, a toy tree, possibly a German "flat".
But is it made of lead?

Stirling parts are very interesting, a forum member is helping to build one, as there are none left. Try and find the Stirling project

A truly huge undertaking that will take very many years.

My first thought was who would carry a lead toy tree as a talisman, it seems absurd. But knowing the British sense of humour, and having been at a (minor) public school, the type of person who would carry a tree as a talisman might be someone called Tree. (There was a boy in our house with the surname Tree whose parents lived and worked in Malaysia. He was, not so affectionately, known as Rubber Tree).

I do not think that this is the person but it could well have belonged to someone with a similar name who survived being shot down.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/c...,-john-robert/

Or, more likely, I am way off the mark.

Pure conjecture on my part but the word 'Tree' could also have been part of a nickname for the Aircraft in question.

Simon.

I wonder if it was a talisman and actually part of the crash site itself, it is interesting to speculate if it had been attached to or placed within the aircraft, rather than being carried by the aircrew member concerned, unless lost by accident, otherwise, you might expect have found human remains with it.

Dropped by a kid exploring the site?

Certainly possible.

That was my thought as well , kids in Britain were all over sites when enemy planes crashed.