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CONCHES-EN-OUCHE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

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France
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GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.97049, Longitude: 0.94118

Location Information

Conches-en-Ouche is a small town south of Rouen, and 16 kilometres west-south-west of the town of Evreux. The Cemetery is on the northern outskirts of the town on the road (D840) to Le Nebourg.


History Information

There are  23, 1914-18 and 2, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.

Total Casualties: 25.

World War One Identified Casualties: Canada 13, United Kingdom 10. Total 23.

World War Two Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 2. 


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
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763436 Private
Thomas Graveston
4411 Company, 
Canadian Forestry Corps
3rd August 1917, aged 19.
Row A. 14.

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Son of Thomas and Margaret Graveston.

His headstone bears the inscription "For Home And Country"


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9666 Sergeant
George Mason
1st Bn. 
Worcestershire Regiment transferred to (565806) 65th Company, Labour Corps
19th October 1918.
Row A. 11.




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6489 Corporal
Alfred George Medhurst
8th Bn. 
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
 transferred  to (370567) 14th Prisoner of War Company,  Labour Corps
8th November 1918, aged 41.
Row A. 2.

Husband of Alice Louisa Medhurst, of Wisteria Cottage, 60, Nutley Lane, Reigate, Surrey.

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231691 Private
William Mansley Riley
2nd Company, 
Canadian Forestry Corps
16th December 1918.
Row B. 2.

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Husband of Emma C. Riley, of Viking, Alberta. Native of Irma, Alberta.

His headstone bears the inscription "Among Those Other Living Whom We Call Dead"


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451933 Private
Edgar Cooper Simmons
341 Company, 
Canadian Forestry Corps
31st October 1918, aged 32.
Row A. 6.

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Son of Alfred William and Ada Mary Ann Simmons, of Strand St., Sandwich, Kent.

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(Pictures © Johan Pauwels)

Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
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Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
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Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery

This headstone was erected on 8th October 1959 in a separate plot

Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery

World War Two Burials

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Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Conches-en-Ouche Communal Cemetery
Burial Details

1473829 Flight Sergeant Gordon Ewart Holland, 65 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th July 1944, aged 21. Row A. 17. Son of Ralph and Susannah Holland, of Cheadle, Cheshire. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going down Of The Sun and In The Morning We Will Remember Them"

6018085 Corporal Charles F. Middleton, 6th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, died 10th June 1940. Row B. 6.

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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.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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