GIVERNY CHURCHYARD
Eure
France
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.07745 Longitude: 1.5238
Location Information
Giverny is a village about 3 kilometres south-east of Vernon. The church and churchyard is north of the village.
History Information
In the north-western part of the churchyard, a few yards from the western wall and 20 yards from the northern wall which divides it from its extension, is the collective grave of seven airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Giverny Churchyard contains seven U. K. burials from World War Two.
Giverny is a village about 3 kilometres south-east of Vernon. The church and churchyard is north of the village.
History Information
In the north-western part of the churchyard, a few yards from the western wall and 20 yards from the northern wall which divides it from its extension, is the collective grave of seven airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Giverny Churchyard contains seven U. K. burials from World War Two.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Burial Details
Back Row From Left To Right
1340922 Sergeant Jack Leslie Fyfe, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1944, aged 22. Son of William and Isabella Leslie Fyfe, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. His headstone bears the inscription "May He Rest In Perfect Peace"
1607978 Sergeant Kenneth Penton, Air Gunner in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1944, aged 20. Son of Charles and Evelyn Penton, of Southampton. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"
174531 Pilot Officer Ronald Peter Maude, Pilot in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1944, aged 21. Son of Edgar Ringrose Maude and Elsie Boyfield Maude, of Gloucester. His headstone bears the inscription "May He Live Evermore In The Joy Of His Resurrection"
55041 Flying Officer Ronald William Tovey, Navigator in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1944, aged 23. His headstone bears the inscription "My Beloved Husband Ron Loved Ones Pass Beyond Our Sight, God Called Him And He Could Not Stay"
Front Row From Left To Right
1590890 Sergeant Alan Herbert Anderson, Flight Engineer in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1944, aged 19. Son of Herbert and Florence Hilda Anderson, of North Shields, Northumberland. His headstone bears the inscription "Our Beloved Son Made The Supreme Sacrifice. In God's Own Time We Shall Meet Again"
177401 Pilot Officer Harold Arthur Foster, Air Bomber in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1944, aged 31. Son of Arthur and Alice Lily Foster; husband of Joan Rosamund Foster, of Coventry. his headstone bears the inscription "They Shall Mount Up With Wings As Eagles"
1567609 Sergeant Robert Donald John Sutherland, Air Gunner in 115 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1944, aged 20. Son of John Macpherson Sutherland and Helen Sutherland, of Golspie, Sutherlandshire. His headstone bears the inscription In Loving Memory Of Our Dear Robert. "Till The Dawn And The Shadows Flee Away"
