GUERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.95473, Longitude: 1.51382
Location Information
Guerville is a village and commune 19.50 miles (31 kilometres) east of Dieppe on the D.14 Gamaches to Grandcourt road, and 2.50 miles (4 kilometres) south-west of Gamaches. The nearest railway station is at Gamaches, on the Le Treport-Paris line. The communal cemetery is on the left of a road running south from Guerville church to the Forest of Eu, and is some 600 yards from the church. Just south of the War Memorial in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of three airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Burial Details
26100 Squadron Leader Wilfred Ivanhoe Harris Burke, Pilot in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1940, aged 31.
Son of William Henry and Claire Burke; husband of Nora Madeline Burke (nee Link), of Canterbury. His headstone bears the inscription "Never In The field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few"
77921 Pilot Officer Robert Moffat, Observer in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1940, aged 20. Son of Gilbert and Helen R. Moffat, of Glasgow.. His headstone bears the inscription "He Lived For Others; He Died That Others Might Live"
755768 Sergeant George Thompson, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1940.
Guerville is a village and commune 19.50 miles (31 kilometres) east of Dieppe on the D.14 Gamaches to Grandcourt road, and 2.50 miles (4 kilometres) south-west of Gamaches. The nearest railway station is at Gamaches, on the Le Treport-Paris line. The communal cemetery is on the left of a road running south from Guerville church to the Forest of Eu, and is some 600 yards from the church. Just south of the War Memorial in the centre of the cemetery are the graves of three airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Burial Details
26100 Squadron Leader Wilfred Ivanhoe Harris Burke, Pilot in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1940, aged 31.
Son of William Henry and Claire Burke; husband of Nora Madeline Burke (nee Link), of Canterbury. His headstone bears the inscription "Never In The field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few"
77921 Pilot Officer Robert Moffat, Observer in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th June 1940, aged 20. Son of Gilbert and Helen R. Moffat, of Glasgow.. His headstone bears the inscription "He Lived For Others; He Died That Others Might Live"
755768 Sergeant George Thompson, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th June 1940.
