ATTIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Ardennes
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.47757, Longitude: 4.57343
Location Information
Attigny is a village and a commune in the department of the Ardennes, on the south bank of the River Aisne. It is 34 kilometres south-west of Mezières and 16 kilometres east of Rethel. The Cemetery is on the south-western side of the village on the road to Saules-Champenoises.
Historical Information
Near its south-eastern corner are the graves of four airmen, two of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and two to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
There are also 43 French and 3 Spanish Graves in this cemetery.
Attigny is a village and a commune in the department of the Ardennes, on the south bank of the River Aisne. It is 34 kilometres south-west of Mezières and 16 kilometres east of Rethel. The Cemetery is on the south-western side of the village on the road to Saules-Champenoises.
Historical Information
Near its south-eastern corner are the graves of four airmen, two of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and two to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
There are also 43 French and 3 Spanish Graves in this cemetery.
Images in gallery below © Thierry Grier
R/86357 Flight Sergeant
William John Hesp
Air Obs. in 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th August 1942.
William John Hesp
Air Obs. in 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th August 1942.
Other Burial Details
1126560 Flight Sergeant William Stansfield Allen, Pilot in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th August 1942, aged 21. Son of Ernest and Ivy Allen, of Whitefield, Lancashire. his headstone bears the inscription "God Has You In His Keeping We Have You In Our Thoughts" "Rest In The Lord"
1430680 Sergeant Eric Hepworth, Obs. in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th August 1942. Son of Thomas Albert and Ellen Hepworth, of Marsh, Huddersfield; husband of Elsie Winifred Hepworth, of Dalton, Huddersfield. His headstone bears the inscription "All Religion Has Relation To Life And The Life Of Religion Is to Do Good"
R/87850 Flight Sergeant John Frederick Tuck, Air Gunner in in 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 29th August 1942, aged 22. Son of Frederick James Tuck and Dorothy Lillian Tuck. His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This"
1126560 Flight Sergeant William Stansfield Allen, Pilot in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th August 1942, aged 21. Son of Ernest and Ivy Allen, of Whitefield, Lancashire. his headstone bears the inscription "God Has You In His Keeping We Have You In Our Thoughts" "Rest In The Lord"
1430680 Sergeant Eric Hepworth, Obs. in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th August 1942. Son of Thomas Albert and Ellen Hepworth, of Marsh, Huddersfield; husband of Elsie Winifred Hepworth, of Dalton, Huddersfield. His headstone bears the inscription "All Religion Has Relation To Life And The Life Of Religion Is to Do Good"
R/87850 Flight Sergeant John Frederick Tuck, Air Gunner in in 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 29th August 1942, aged 22. Son of Frederick James Tuck and Dorothy Lillian Tuck. His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This"
