GAILLEFONTAINE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.65391, Longitude: 1.61373
Location Information
Gaillefontaine is a village and commune 45 kilometres north-east of Rouen, and 8 kilometres north-east of Forges-les-Eaux, which is 54 kilometres south-east of Dieppe on the N.IS road from Dieppe through Forges-les-Eaux to Paris.
The communal cemetery is on the north-west side of the village, behind the war memorial on the village square. In the eastern portion of the cemetery, near the north-east boundary wall, are the graves of 3 British soldiers, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
7957291 Trooper Murray William Sinclair Knight, 'A' Sqn. 11th Hussars., Royal Armoured Corps, died 31st August 1944, aged 21. Son of William Spring Knight and Florence Knight, of Beckenham, Kent. His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down his Life For His Friends"
557170 Trooper Edward Robert Arthur Smith, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died 31st August 1944, aged 25. Son of Jesse and Eliza Smith, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "In God's Keeping till We Meet Again"
Gaillefontaine is a village and commune 45 kilometres north-east of Rouen, and 8 kilometres north-east of Forges-les-Eaux, which is 54 kilometres south-east of Dieppe on the N.IS road from Dieppe through Forges-les-Eaux to Paris.
The communal cemetery is on the north-west side of the village, behind the war memorial on the village square. In the eastern portion of the cemetery, near the north-east boundary wall, are the graves of 3 British soldiers, one of whom is not identified.
Burial Details
7957291 Trooper Murray William Sinclair Knight, 'A' Sqn. 11th Hussars., Royal Armoured Corps, died 31st August 1944, aged 21. Son of William Spring Knight and Florence Knight, of Beckenham, Kent. His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down his Life For His Friends"
557170 Trooper Edward Robert Arthur Smith, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps, died 31st August 1944, aged 25. Son of Jesse and Eliza Smith, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "In God's Keeping till We Meet Again"
