CAGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Calvados
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.14809, Longitude: -0.25055
Location Information
Cagny is a village 9 kilometres south-east of Caen, on the Caen to Lisieux road. The Communal Cemetery is 300 yards north-east of the main road and is on the west side of the road from Cagny to Emieville and Troarn. There are 6 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war, near the southern corner of the Communal Cemetery.
Burial Details
133470 Flying Officer Alexander Edward Bothwell, Navigator in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 27. Son of Alexander Bothwell and Emily Louise Bothwell (nee Wainright); husband of Doris Bothwell (nee Kinnin), of Blackheath, London. His headstone bears the inscription "His Memory Disarms Death And Charms In The Surly Grave"
1322626 Flight Sergeant Philip Charles Goddard, Air Bomber in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 21. Son of Charles Joseph and Annie Augusta Goddard; nephew of Mrs. H. M. McFarlane, of Edgware, Middlesex.
Flight Lieutenant Fred Gribble, Pilot in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 32. Son of Fred and Emily Nichols Gribble; husband of Eleanor Mohn Gribble, of Long Beach. California. U.S.A. His headstone bears the inscription "Last Night I Flew Into The Tree Of Death"
1582179 Sergeant Edward Whitehead, Flight Engineer, in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944.
1323332 Flight Sergeant Harry Edgar Wootton, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944.
147688 Flying Officer Sydney Frank Yardley, Flight Engineer, in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 23. Son of David Walter and Elizabeth Yardley; husband of Dorothy Elizabeth Yardley, of Camberwell, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Love's Last Gift, Remembrance. Wife Dorothy, Baby Lesley, Mum, Dad And Bill"
Cagny is a village 9 kilometres south-east of Caen, on the Caen to Lisieux road. The Communal Cemetery is 300 yards north-east of the main road and is on the west side of the road from Cagny to Emieville and Troarn. There are 6 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war, near the southern corner of the Communal Cemetery.
Burial Details
133470 Flying Officer Alexander Edward Bothwell, Navigator in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 27. Son of Alexander Bothwell and Emily Louise Bothwell (nee Wainright); husband of Doris Bothwell (nee Kinnin), of Blackheath, London. His headstone bears the inscription "His Memory Disarms Death And Charms In The Surly Grave"
1322626 Flight Sergeant Philip Charles Goddard, Air Bomber in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 21. Son of Charles Joseph and Annie Augusta Goddard; nephew of Mrs. H. M. McFarlane, of Edgware, Middlesex.
Flight Lieutenant Fred Gribble, Pilot in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 32. Son of Fred and Emily Nichols Gribble; husband of Eleanor Mohn Gribble, of Long Beach. California. U.S.A. His headstone bears the inscription "Last Night I Flew Into The Tree Of Death"
1582179 Sergeant Edward Whitehead, Flight Engineer, in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944.
1323332 Flight Sergeant Harry Edgar Wootton, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944.
147688 Flying Officer Sydney Frank Yardley, Flight Engineer, in 196 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th June 1944, aged 23. Son of David Walter and Elizabeth Yardley; husband of Dorothy Elizabeth Yardley, of Camberwell, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Love's Last Gift, Remembrance. Wife Dorothy, Baby Lesley, Mum, Dad And Bill"
