World War Two Cemeteries - A photographic guide to the cemeteries and memorials of WW2
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COIGNIÈRES CHURCHYARD

Yvelines

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.74736, Longitude: 1.91821

Location Information

Coignières is a village 16 kilometres south-west of Versailles, 14 kilometres north-north-east of Rambouillet and is on the Rambouillet-Versailles road. It can be reached by rail from Paris. The collective grave of the 7 British airmen is near the south-east corner of the churchyard.
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Coignières Churchyard
Coignières Churchyard
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Coignières Churchyard
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176094 Flying Officer 
Walter John Fergus Buchanan
Pilot in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
26th July 1944, aged 28. 

​Son of John and Dorothy Buchanan; husband of Winifred Buchanan, of Camden Town, London.

His headstone bears the inscription "Remembered Always In Love"


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1332685 Flight Sergeant 
Philip Malcolm Kitto
Navigator in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
​26th July 1944.

Other Burial Details

574407 Sergeant Arthur Ashby, Flight Engineer in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 26th July 1944, aged 21. Son of Herbert Arthur and Florence Ashby, of Yeovil, Somerset. His headstone bears the inscription "Forever In Our Hearts"

1587965 Sergeant Clifford John Crane, Air Gunner in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 26th July 1944, aged 20. Son of Clifford Walter and Maud Crane, of Bawdrip, Somerset. His headstone bears the inscription "God Be With You Till We Meet Again"

642804 Sergeant Ernest Greenwood, Air Gunner in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 26th July 1944.

1580355 Sergeant George William Picker, Radio Operator in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 26th July 1944, aged 21. Son of Joseph Thomas Picker and Alice Maud Picker. His headstone bears the inscription "Whatever Else We Fail To Do We Never Fail To Think Of You"

1218398 Flight Sergeant Ernest Shackleton, Air Bomber in 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 26th July 1944, aged 22. Son of Sam and Eveline Shackleton, of Halifax, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Remembered And Loved By His mother And Family At Halifax, Yorkshire"

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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.
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