BURE CHURCHYARD
Meuse
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.5054, Longitude: 5.35842
Image above © Thierry Grier
Location Information
Bure is a village 34 kilometres south-south-east of Bar-le-Duc and 20 kilometres east-north-east of Joinville (Haute Marne). Five airmen are buried in this churchyard - four belonging to the Royal Air Force and one to the Royal Canadian Air Force. The graves are north of the church, near the northern boundary.
Images in gallery below © Thierry Grier
Bombing over Schweinfurt, Germany. Take off from Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, UK.
Shot down by a German night fighter Bf.110, driven by Hauptmann Helmut Bergmann from 8./NG 4.
1865370 Sergeant
Robert James Boyce
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 20.
Son of Robert William and Mary Elizabeth Boyce, of Ealing, Middlesex.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"
Robert James Boyce
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 20.
Son of Robert William and Mary Elizabeth Boyce, of Ealing, Middlesex.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"
J/88734 Pilot Officer
Robert Fraser Cluff
49 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
27th April 1944, aged 21.
Son of James L. Cluff and Eva M. Cluff, of Huntingdon, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Robert Fraser Cluff
49 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
27th April 1944, aged 21.
Son of James L. Cluff and Eva M. Cluff, of Huntingdon, Province of Quebec, Canada.
170961 Pilot Officer
Robert Montgomery
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 22.
Son of Thomas W. Montgomery, and of Mary Ann Montgomery, of Coventry.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Gave His Life For Freedom And Life Eternal Crowns His Fair Young Head"
Robert Montgomery
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 22.
Son of Thomas W. Montgomery, and of Mary Ann Montgomery, of Coventry.
His headstone bears the inscription "He Gave His Life For Freedom And Life Eternal Crowns His Fair Young Head"
1410923 Sergeant
Terence Parkin
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 23.
Son of Charles and Sarah Parkin, of Llansamlet, Glamorgan.
His headstone bears the inscription "Here He Lies So Far Away, But Our Thoughts Of Him Are Always Near"
Terence Parkin
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 23.
Son of Charles and Sarah Parkin, of Llansamlet, Glamorgan.
His headstone bears the inscription "Here He Lies So Far Away, But Our Thoughts Of Him Are Always Near"
1331001 Flight Sergeant
Stanley Smith
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 24.
Husband of Doris Kathleen Smith, of Kilburn, Middlesex.
Stanley Smith
49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
27th April 1944, aged 24.
Husband of Doris Kathleen Smith, of Kilburn, Middlesex.
