Six of the seven members of the crew killed at Cugny 9th August 1944 and buried at Cugny Communal Cemetery. (Courtesy of John Grady)
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The graves of Victoria Cross recipient Guy Gibson and James Warwick D. F. C. at Steenbergen in The Netherlands
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John Woodburn Gillan, DFC and Bar, AFC. Royal Air Force 29th August 19141, aged 34. Plot 2. Row 2. Grave 41. Son of the Revd. David Hedley Gillan, and of Helen Gillan (nee Drummond), of Edinburgh. The inscription on his headstone reads: "His dauntless spirit is alive for evermore." New pictures added to Bény-sur-Mer War Cemetery in Normandy courtesy of Johan Pauwels. The cemetery contains the graves of the three Westlake brothers who were killed between the 7th June 1944 and 11th June 1944. The cemetery, designed by P.D. Hepworth, contains 2,048 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian, and 19 of them unidentified.
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