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BREDENE CHURCHYARD

West-Vlaanderen

Belgium

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 51.23491 Longitude: 2.97688

Location Information

Bredene Churchyard is located 7 km east of Oostende on the N316 Sluizenstraat, a road leading from the N9 connecting Oostende to Brugge. From Oostende the N9 leads from Sas Slijkens for 3 km to the left hand junction with the N316 Sluizenstraat. 2 km along Sluizenstraat lies the village of Bredene. The churchyard is located on the Dorpstraat which is a right turn from Sluizenstraat in the village itself. This churchyard is not an open site and access is limited by normal cemetery opening hours.


Historical Information

The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany. 

Bredene Churchyard contains 12 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, four of them unidentified. The churchyard also contains the grave of one airman of the First World War.


Total Burials: 13.

World War One Identified Casualty. United Kingdom 1.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 8, Canada 1. Total 9.

World War Two Unidentified Casualties: 4. 


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World War One Burial

Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Second Lieutenant Stewart King, Royal Air Force, died 26th September 1918, aged 19. Son of Stewart and Millicent Constance King, of "Hove-to", Banks Rd., Sandbanks, Parkstone, Dorset.

World War Two Burials

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Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
Bredene Churchyard
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J/2928 Flying Officer
Richard Fuller Patterson
Pilot in 121 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
7th December 1941, aged 26.


Son of James Thomas Patterson and Mattie Gregory Patterson, of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.

His headstone bears the inscription "Glad Did I Live And I Laid Me Down With A Will"

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Disclaimer


The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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