Tuesday, May 4th 1943 , 2030 hrs Police officer E.Bergman Flädie PD reported by telephone that he had been notified, that the body of a male person dressed in a foreign flying uniform had been found in Öresund by villa Haga in Bjerred.
Due to the darkness further investigation of the body had to wait to the following day.
The police officer was ordered to retrive the body from the shore and protect it to the following morning.
Next morning the senior officer G.Emmertz and his assistant Gustaf Olsson and E.Bergman,
Made the examination of the body.
The dead man was dressed in a military flying uniform and missing his headgear and one of the boots, had apparantly been in the water for some time, the body was decomposing and the face was gone.
Lower arms and legs was broken and the bones were visible.
The body had the parachute harness but no chute, and a life preserver of rubber that was broken and had traces of fire.
During the examination of the clotches the following objects was discovered.
3 bags made of rubbber/canvas, the larger one was marked ”U.S” and with the text ”If this pocket is found it must be handed in to the nearest Police station at once”.
And another one marked ”N.D”, the smallest was unmarked.
These bags contained:
23 American dollars,
100 norwegian crowns,
150 danish crowns,
80 gold francs
1 map of germany on thin paper,
1 map on slightly thicker paper of Scandinavia and the baltics,
2 miniature compasses,
1 rubber rod with an embedded miniature metal saw,
1 ”Identity card for R.A.F and W.A.A.F. personell/all ranks/”
Nr 780202 with a photo, with a note ”Chambers” and the numbers ”8-10”, and 5 more photos,
1 metal bottle containing some Whisky,
1 Ring of yellow metal stamped with”H.G.&S.” and ”9 375” and a lying anchor,
1 nail file,
1 uniform button.
One rank insignia was removed from the mans arm ”3 stripes”.
By the finds it was clear that the man was either of British or American origin, so the British consul in Malmoe and the American in Gothenburg was notified and promised to investigate the identity of the man.
Gardener Erik Sigvard Petterson, Villa Haga, Önnerup 10 in Fjelie, that was the one who discovered the body and this is his statement.
Tuesday may 4 1943 between 2000-2030 hrs a worker named KarlNilsson came in to Petterson and asked if he had some boots.
Nilsson had observed an object in the water approx 10 meters from the shore.
Petterson followed him out .
10 meters out the airman was lying face down they took the body to the shore and notified the police.
After the examination the body was transported in a coffin to the morgue in fjelie awaiting instructions from the consulate.
G.Emmertz.
This day a phonecall from the British consulate confirmed that the dead man was Colin Fredrick Chambers from Stratford on Avon Sgt in R.A.F nr 656382.
Lund May 24 1943
G.Emmertz
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