BEAUFORT-EN-ARGONNE CHURCHYARD
Meuse
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.47248, Longitude: 5.11313
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Beaufort-en-Argonne is a village and commune 40 kilometres north-north-west of Verdun and about the same distance south-south-east of Sedan. In the Churchyard are 5 U. K. airmen from World War Two.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Lancaster I R5574 took off from Syerston at 1650 on 21st December 1942 with seven crew members from 106 Squadron onboard. The plane crashed at Beaufort-en-Argonne, 43km NNW of Verdun in France. Five of the crew members are buried here, Flight Sergeant Brian Gordon Louch is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial in England and P/O Philip Brian Cecil Moore survived the crash to become a P. O. W.
80346 Flying Officer
Grimwood Choke Cooke, D F. C. & D. F M.
Pilot in 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21st December 1942, aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Florence Amelia Cooke, stepson of Mr. F.D. Laland, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. His twin brother, Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Harold Cooke, also died on service and is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany
Grimwood Choke Cooke, D F. C. & D. F M.
Pilot in 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
21st December 1942, aged 20.
Son of Herbert and Florence Amelia Cooke, stepson of Mr. F.D. Laland, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. His twin brother, Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Harold Cooke, also died on service and is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery in Germany
137659 Pilot Officer Arthur Mussendine Camplin, Observer in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
120850 Pilot Officer Bernard Cuthbert Goodwin, D. F. M. Wireless Operator in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 21. Son of James and Mary H. Goodwin, of Glasgow. His headstone bears the inscription "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions... I Go To Prepare A Place For You"
938106 Sergeant Fred Morrell, Flight Engineer in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 24. Son of Frederick John and Dora Morrell, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
658695 Sergeant Michael Reynolds, Wireless Operator in Royal Air Force.
120850 Pilot Officer Bernard Cuthbert Goodwin, D. F. M. Wireless Operator in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 21. Son of James and Mary H. Goodwin, of Glasgow. His headstone bears the inscription "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions... I Go To Prepare A Place For You"
938106 Sergeant Fred Morrell, Flight Engineer in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 24. Son of Frederick John and Dora Morrell, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire.
658695 Sergeant Michael Reynolds, Wireless Operator in Royal Air Force.
