CRONENBOURG FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.59012, Longitude: 7.72975
Location Information
Cronenbourg is a western suburb of the town of Strasbourg and is easily reached from Strasbourg station. The French National Cemetery is about 2 kilometres from the railway station on the Place du Souvenir français, 67200.
History Information
Cronenbourg Cemetery was used during the 1914-1918 War for French and Allied burials (including eight British casualties but mostly Russian and Rumanian soldiers).
Further graves were added later from the following cemeteries - CHATENOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) MOLSHEIM COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) SCHERWILLER COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) VILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace)
There are now 15, 1914-18 and 14, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. A special memorial is erected to one British soldier from the 1914-18 War, whose grave cannot be located.
Total Burials: 29.
World War One Casualties: United Kingdom 15.
World War Two Casualties: United Kingdom 6, Australia 5, New Zealand 2, Canada 1. Total 14.
Cronenbourg is a western suburb of the town of Strasbourg and is easily reached from Strasbourg station. The French National Cemetery is about 2 kilometres from the railway station on the Place du Souvenir français, 67200.
History Information
Cronenbourg Cemetery was used during the 1914-1918 War for French and Allied burials (including eight British casualties but mostly Russian and Rumanian soldiers).
Further graves were added later from the following cemeteries - CHATENOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) MOLSHEIM COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) SCHERWILLER COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace) VILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY (Alsace)
There are now 15, 1914-18 and 14, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. A special memorial is erected to one British soldier from the 1914-18 War, whose grave cannot be located.
Total Burials: 29.
World War One Casualties: United Kingdom 15.
World War Two Casualties: United Kingdom 6, Australia 5, New Zealand 2, Canada 1. Total 14.
Pictures in the gallery below used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Group portrait of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) trainees of Course 28A, Flight 12, C Squadron at No. 4 Initial Training School RAAF, Victor Harbor, South Australia.
Identified in the front row, second from the right and buried in this cemetery is 417454 Flying Officer Ronald William Brown, Royal Australian Air Force, died 29th July 1944, aged 21. Son of William Octavious and Edith Eliza Ann Brown; husband of Iris Hall Brown, of Prospect, South Australia. His headstone bears the inscription "Hearts That Loved You Never Forget"
415522 Warrant Officer
Keat Dudding
75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force
25th July 1944, aged 25.
Son of Charles Henry and Zoe Fanny Dudding, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand.
Keat Dudding
75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force
25th July 1944, aged 25.
Son of Charles Henry and Zoe Fanny Dudding, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand.
Picture © Conrad Freeling
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Picture © Conrad Freeling
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J/20908 Flying Officer
Reginald Stewart McGibbon
576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th July 1944, aged 27.
Son of John Stewart McGibbon and Dora Irene McGibbon of Dundee, Huntingdon Co., Province of Quebec, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription Born 15th August 1916, Dundee Quebec, Canada. "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Reginald Stewart McGibbon
576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th July 1944, aged 27.
Son of John Stewart McGibbon and Dora Irene McGibbon of Dundee, Huntingdon Co., Province of Quebec, Canada.
His headstone bears the inscription Born 15th August 1916, Dundee Quebec, Canada. "Gone But Not Forgotten"
35590 Flight Sergeant
Stephen Allen Smith
Royal Australian Air Force
29th July 1944, aged 24.
Son of Stephen and Annie Smith, of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done"
Stephen Allen Smith
Royal Australian Air Force
29th July 1944, aged 24.
Son of Stephen and Annie Smith, of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done"
428800 Flying Officer
Keith Owen Whitehouse
75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force
25th July 1944, aged 23.
Son of Harold Owen Whitehouse and Fanny Whitehouse, of Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand.
Keith Owen Whitehouse
75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force
25th July 1944, aged 23.
Son of Harold Owen Whitehouse and Fanny Whitehouse, of Khandallah, Wellington, New Zealand.
