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ECQUETOT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Eure

France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.17044, Longitude: 1.01178

Location Information

Ecquetot is a village and commune 20 kilometres north-west of Évreux. 

The communal cemetery is in the fields 200 yards east of the D.79 road to La Haye-Malherbe, along a narrow road. In the south-eastern corner is the collective grave of four airmen, one of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and the others to the Royal Canadian Air Force.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
Ecquetot Communal Cemetery
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J/22100 Flying Officer 
John Kinnaird Greenway
Navigator in 158 (R.A.F.) Squadron. Royal Canadian Air Force
​3rd June 1944.

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2209172 Sergeant 
Thomas John Sheridan
Air Gunner in 158 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
​3rd June 1940.


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J/86841 Pilot Officer 
Russell Bennett Thompson
Pilot in 158 (R.A.F.) Squadron. Royal Canadian Air Force
3rd June 1944, aged 23.

​Son of Harold Bennett Thompson and Edith Margaret Thompson, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Loving Memory Of Our Dear Son And Brother"


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J/89867 Pilot Officer 
William Alexander Younie
Air Bomber in 158 (R.A.F.) Squadron. Royal Canadian Air Force
3rd June 1944, aged 28.

​Son of William and Jessie Younie; husband of Vera Evelyn Younie, of Caeron, Glamorgan.

His headstone bears the inscription "I Bare You On Eagles' Wings, And Brought You Unto Myself"

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