GUEURES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-Maritime
France

Location Information

Gueures is a village and commune 13 kilometres south-west of Dieppe, 4 kilometres south of Ouville, a village on the Dieppe to St Valery-en-Caux road, 12 kilometres from Dieppe.


History Information

The Australian grave is near the southern boundary and the central path of the communal cemetery.


Burial Details

400733 Squadron Leader Arthur Geoffrey Oxlade, Royal Australian Air Force, died 6th June 1944, aged 24. Son of Arthur Harold and Olive May Oxlade, of Croydon, Victoria. Australia. INSCRIPTION. LOVED SON OF A.& O. OXLADE OF BOX HILL, VICTORIA "EVER IN OUR HEARTS"

​Group portrait of Australian airmen at a "Wings Parade" ceremony at the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) No 2 Service Flying Training School in Ottawa, Canada when a large group of airmen from the Antipodes graduated. Sir Clive Baillieu, noted Australian and Director General of the British Purchasing Commission in Washington, pinned the "Wings" on their tunics. Most of the men are from Melbourne.

Identified in the back row from left to right: 400716 Victor William Johnstone (died 8 January 1942 on operations over France); 400273 Ronald Victor Flanagan; 400692 Raymond Thomas Brewin (died 29 November 1941 in an accident in UK); 400726 John Alexander McMillan; 400695 Edward Earnest Coate; 400718 William Robert Kilpatrick (died 31 July 1943 on operations over France); 400738 Brian Snowball; and 400604 William Kent Sloggatt (died 9 January 1942 in an accident in UK).

Second row from left to right: 250854 John Rutherford Gordon, MC; 400689 Robert Wilson Baxter (died 7 August 1942 in an accident in UK); 400459 Kenneth Edward Collins; 400746 Stanley Donald Wills (died 26 May 1942 in an accident in Ireland); 400691 John A'Beckett Penleigh Boyd; 400687 Valden Leonard Bailey (died 28 April 1942 on operations over Germany); 400736 Clifford Alan Stachwell (died 13 July 1944 on operations over New Guinea); and 400747 Alexander Philip Stepto Wood) died 29 April 1944 in an accident in Wallen, Victoria).

Front row from left to right: 400694 John Callahan (died 4 September 1942 in an accident in UK); 400733 Arthur Geoffrey Oxlade (died 6 June 1944 on operations over France); 400725 Douglas Leslie McGregor (died 3 November 1942 in an accident over the Irish Sea); 400744 George William Walters (died 18 July 1943 on operations over the English Channel); 400707 Mervyn Richards Roberts Green (died 28 March 1942 on operations over Germany); 400458 Alfred Henry Blake (died 28 May 1943 on operations off Darwin, Northern Territory); 400508 William John Storey; and 400739 Frederick Stanley Stevens.
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