ⓘWhat do the D1–D5 confidence tiers mean?›
- D1A single attributed public source (museum, council, Historic England, CWGC, mapping data).
- D2Two or more independent public sources corroborate the same facts.
- D3A named coordinator or local reviewer has confirmed the public-source account.
- D4A named observer has personally visited and documented the site — photographs, inscriptions, condition.
- D5An archive or institution has provided written documentation supporting the entry.
A higher tier means more corroborating evidence, not automatic historical certainty. The Discovery layer does not replace archival verification.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records a cemetery at Severomorsk, formerly Vaenga, on the Kola Inlet, containing the graves of six Commonwealth airmen of the Second World War. The site lies within the naval base, roughly 500 metres from the headquarters of the Russian Northern Fleet.
Among those buried there are airmen of No. 151 Wing RAF, sent to Vaenga in 1941 to help the Soviet Union with the air defence of Murmansk. Imperial War Museums records the grave of Sergeant N H Smith, killed on 12 September 1941 and described as the first RAF casualty in Russia, at the Russian naval cemetery at Severomorsk.
The six graves are not all accounted for by the names MoyPolk currently holds. Four airmen who died in the Soviet Arctic are recorded on this platform from Air Ministry casualty files; the remaining graves are not identified here, and no name is supplied to fill the gap.
What this page does not claim
- The identity of all six graves. Four airmen are recorded on this platform; the other graves are not identified and no name is supplied for them.
- Public accessibility. The site lies within an active naval base and this record makes no claim that it can be visited.
- A direct capture of the CWGC source. The CWGC page returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval; its content is cited from a search-result summary and no content hash is recorded.
- Coordinates. Not captured from a source and deliberately left empty rather than estimated.
- Endorsement by any named institution.
ⓘHow is each connection known?›
- FROM THE RECORDA record on this platform states this connection, quoted here in its own words.
- CITED SOURCEAn external cited source states this connection.
- SEVERAL SOURCESNo single source states this connection; it follows from several independent pieces of evidence, named here.
- OUR CONCLUSIONThe platform's own editorial judgement, not a statement by a source.
This describes one connection, not the page as a whole: the D1-D5 tier at the top of the page says what the record itself rests on. A connection can rest on a direct statement by a source even where the record around it is weakly supported, and the other way round.
Commemorates
- G Thomas
OUR CONCLUSIONAn earlier version of this archive recorded that the connection exists, but not what it was based on. It is shown as that record left it, and no source is claimed for it.
- N H Smith
OUR CONCLUSIONAn earlier version of this archive recorded that the connection exists, but not what it was based on. It is shown as that record left it, and no source is claimed for it.
- R E Holmes
OUR CONCLUSIONAn earlier version of this archive recorded that the connection exists, but not what it was based on. It is shown as that record left it, and no source is claimed for it.
- J Ridley
OUR CONCLUSIONAn earlier version of this archive recorded that the connection exists, but not what it was based on. It is shown as that record left it, and no source is claimed for it.
Sources
ⓘWhat do the A–D source marks mean?›
- A · national institutionalA national institution — Historic England, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Imperial War Museum, The National Archives.
- B · civic / accreditedA civic or accredited body — a local council, an accredited museum, a university.
- C · local / communityA local or community body — a historical society, a parish, a local research project.
- D · routing only (never sole)Reference and routing only — Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap. Useful for finding the way to a source, and never the only authority behind a statement on this platform.
This describes one source, not the record as a whole. The letter says how institutional the source is, not how well supported the statement beside it is.
- ACommonwealth War Graves Commission — The cemetery and the count of six Second World War Commonwealth airmen. CAPTURE FAILED: the page returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, so no content hash is recorded and the content is cited from a search-result summary.
- AImperial War Museums — Smith as the first RAF casualty in Russia and the location of his grave. CAPTURE FAILED: the page truncated on retrieval, so no content hash is recorded.
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