CHAPELLE-VALLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Aube
France
Location Information
Chapelle-Vallon is a village in the Department of the Aube, some 15 kilometres north of Troyes and 6 kilometres west of Aubeterre. The communal cemetery lies in the village near the church. In the north-east part of the cemetery and north-east of the central memorial are eight airmen who died on the 4th May 1944.
Flight Details:(1)
Base: R.A.F. Binbrook, Lincs.
Unit: 460 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial ND630
Target: Mailly-le-Camp, France
Incident: crashed at Chapelle-Vallon, Aube
(2)
Base: R.A.F. Kirmington, Lincs.
Unit: 166 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial LL743
Target: Mailly-le-Camp, France
Incident: Crashed at Chapelle-Vallon, Aube
Burial Details:
(1)
Flight Sgt. George Charles BARBER, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 32. Son of George and Jane Barber; husband of Beatrice Joesphine Barner of Punchbowl, New South Wales, Australia
Pilot Officer Arthur Bryson MOORE, Royal Canadian Air Force
Sgt. Francis Findley NAISMITH, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 21. Son of Alexander and Helen Findley Naismith of York
Sgt. Thomas OULTON, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 19. Son of George Frederick and Esther Oulton of West Derby, Liverpool
Pilot Officer Joseph William SMART, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 21. Son of Hugh and Evelyn Smart of Deepdene, Victoria, Australia
Flight Sgt. Ernest Frederick STANNETT, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 24. Son of Alfred Edward and Jane Martha Stannett of Chiswick, Middlesex
Pilot Officer George Robert WARNOCK, Royal Canadian Air Force, aged 26, Son of Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Warnock of Reward, Sasketchewan, Canada
(2)
Sgt. John Thomas COCKBURN, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 21.Son of Philip Alexander and Bessie Cockburn of Queensferry, Dumfriesshire
Pictures and Flight Details © Barry Cuttell
Chapelle-Vallon is a village in the Department of the Aube, some 15 kilometres north of Troyes and 6 kilometres west of Aubeterre. The communal cemetery lies in the village near the church. In the north-east part of the cemetery and north-east of the central memorial are eight airmen who died on the 4th May 1944.
Flight Details:(1)
Base: R.A.F. Binbrook, Lincs.
Unit: 460 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial ND630
Target: Mailly-le-Camp, France
Incident: crashed at Chapelle-Vallon, Aube
(2)
Base: R.A.F. Kirmington, Lincs.
Unit: 166 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial LL743
Target: Mailly-le-Camp, France
Incident: Crashed at Chapelle-Vallon, Aube
Burial Details:
(1)
Flight Sgt. George Charles BARBER, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 32. Son of George and Jane Barber; husband of Beatrice Joesphine Barner of Punchbowl, New South Wales, Australia
Pilot Officer Arthur Bryson MOORE, Royal Canadian Air Force
Sgt. Francis Findley NAISMITH, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 21. Son of Alexander and Helen Findley Naismith of York
Sgt. Thomas OULTON, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 19. Son of George Frederick and Esther Oulton of West Derby, Liverpool
Pilot Officer Joseph William SMART, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 21. Son of Hugh and Evelyn Smart of Deepdene, Victoria, Australia
Flight Sgt. Ernest Frederick STANNETT, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 24. Son of Alfred Edward and Jane Martha Stannett of Chiswick, Middlesex
Pilot Officer George Robert WARNOCK, Royal Canadian Air Force, aged 26, Son of Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Warnock of Reward, Sasketchewan, Canada
(2)
Sgt. John Thomas COCKBURN, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve, aged 21.Son of Philip Alexander and Bessie Cockburn of Queensferry, Dumfriesshire
Pictures and Flight Details © Barry Cuttell