BORAN-SUR-OISE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Oise
France

Location Information

Boran-sur-Oise is a village 36 kilometres south-east of Beauvais and 7 kilometres east-north-east of Persan Beaumont. The Cemetery is on the south-west side of the village.
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Historical Information

There are now 22, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.

Informal portrait of the RAAF crew of Lancaster aircraft ND346, 467 Squadron RAF, possibly on return from operations.

Identified in the photograph, left to right, are

430696 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) John Ewart Norris; 420648 Flight Officer Arthur Richard Dyer (Pilot); 425881 Flt Sgt John Alexander Woodrow McKinnon; 426343 Flt Sgt Albert Edward Heap; 410070 WO Johnathan Sylvester Le Maire (Buried in this cemetery) and 426601 Flt Sgt Russell Howard. With the exception of Flt Sgt Norris, the crew were later killed on operations on 2 August 1944 when their aircraft collided mid-air with Lancaster ME853 and crashed at Boran-Sur-Oise, France.

Informal portrait of the RAAF crew of Lancaster aircraft ND346, 467 Squadron RAF.

Identified in the photograph, back row, left to right;

​426343 Flt Sgt Albert Edward Heap; 425881 Flt Sgt John Alexander Woodrow McKinnon; possibly 434619 Flt Sgt Edgar Glynn Challis (lost on operations over France on 2 August 1944) and 410070 WO Johnathan Sylvester Le Maire. (Buried in this cemetery)

Front row, left to right; 426601 Flt Sgt Russell Howard; 420648 Flight Officer Arthur Richard Dyer (with mascot devil on his shoulder) and possibly Sgt A.G Shalayer (RAF). The crew were later killed on operations on 2 August 1944 when their aircraft collided mid-air with Lancaster ME853 and crashed at Boran-Sur-Oise, France.