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ECQUETOT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Eure
France

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.



Burial Details

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

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

J/86841 Pilot Officer Russell Bennett Thompson, Pilot in 158 (R.A.F.) Squadron. Royal Canadian Air Force, died 3rd June 1944, aged 23. Son of Harold Bennett Thompson and Edith Margaret Thompson, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

J/89867 Pilot Officer William Alexander Younie, Air Bomber in 158 (R.A.F.) Squadron. Royal Canadian Air Force, died 3rd June 1944, aged 28. Son of William and Jessie Younie; husband of Vera Evelyn Younie, of Caeron, Glamorgan.


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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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