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09-04-2008, 01:17 AM
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 | Cemetries in France My Great Uncle is buried at COURCELLES LES GISORS COMMUNAL CEMETERY cemetry along with other WW2 Men. I have just received some information/photos from my Great Aunt and on one of the papers It mentions these names who were all killed in action. Sgt Colin Sutherland Menzies, Sgt Eric Walter Mickleborough-Saunders, Flying Officer Harry Michael Steward. At Cramoisy Communal Cemetry. Pilot off Wilfred Abbott, Pilot Off Joseph Arthur Blasko, Sqdn Ldr Charles Gordon Bull, Flying Off Frank Earnest Mitchell. Enencourt Leage Communal Cemetry. Gdsmn Harold John Scrutton Feigneux Communal cemetry. Sgt Kenneth Earnest Chandler, Pilot Off Thomas Govan Evans, Flt sgt Leonard William Hughes. |
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09-04-2008, 08:54 AM
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These are all 76sq 16/7/44 Sgt Colin Sutherland Menzies, Sgt Eric Walter Mickleborough-Saunders, Flying Officer Harry Michael Steward. These are all 431sq RCAF 18/7/44 At Cramoisy Communal Cemetry. Pilot off Wilfred Abbott, Pilot Off Joseph Arthur Blasko, Sqdn Ldr Charles Gordon Bull, Flying Off Frank Earnest Mitchell. 30/8/44 Enencourt Leage Communal Cemetry. Gdsmn Harold John Scrutton These are all 10sq 29/6/44 Feigneux Communal cemetry. Sgt Kenneth Earnest Chandler, Pilot Off Thomas Govan Evans, Flt sgt Leonard William Hughes. So do we assume that this man is your Great Uncle? In Memory of Sergeant PETER VINCENT BOYTER 1874522, 76 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died age 19 on 16 July 1944 Son of Robert Boyter and of Violet Boyter (nee Vincent), of Pittenweem, Fife. Remembered with honour COURCELLES LES GISORS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 09-04-2008 at 09:03 AM. | |
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09-04-2008, 11:36 AM
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| Thanks Spidge, Yes, that's right, Peter Boyter was my Great Uncle and would have been 83 this weekend. I thought someone may be trying to track down these men & might want their grave details etc but I see you can get the information from the CWGC. |
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