GUILERS CHURCHYARD
Finistère
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.42517, Longitude: -4.55891
Location Information
Guilers is a village and commune about 37 miles (59 kilometres) north-west of Quimper and just under 7 kilometres north-west of Brest, on the road to St. Renan. It is most conviently reached by taxi from Brest. The churchyard is on the northern side of the road from Brest. North of the church, near the boundary wall, is a collective grave of five airmen of the Royal Air Force and one airman of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Aircraft shot down and crashed at Kervel-en-Guilers, France, Wellington W5360, 12 Squadron, 7 July 1941.
Burial Details:
902859 Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Amy, Air Gunner in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 22. Son of William G. Amy and Emily J. Amy, of St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"
37031 Squadron Leader Andrew George Gordon Baird, Pilot in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 25. Son of Douglas William Gordon Baird and of Lucy Wilson Baird, of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire. His headstone bears the inscription "Always In My Thoughts"
551290 Sergeant Thomas Oakley Burgess, D. F. M., Wireless Operator in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 21. Son of Thomas Henry and Bertha Emily Burgess, of Mitcham, Surrey. His headstone bears the inscription "A Departure To Make Reunion Dearer. Mum And Dad"
401290 Sergeant Charles Hepburn Robson, 12 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 24. Son of Charles William Hepburn and Christina Robson, of Feilding, Auckland, New Zealand.
22154 Flying Officer William Francis Ward, Observer in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 35. Son of William and Mary Ward; husband of Denise Marcelle Ward, of Les Ormes, St. Yvoine, Puy-de-Dome, France.
77968 Flying Officer Stanley Page Watkins, Air Gunner in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 34. Son of James Watkins and Frances E. Watkins, of Copnor, Hampshire. His headstone bears the inscription "He Believed In England And Live His Life So That All Men Could Be Free"
Guilers is a village and commune about 37 miles (59 kilometres) north-west of Quimper and just under 7 kilometres north-west of Brest, on the road to St. Renan. It is most conviently reached by taxi from Brest. The churchyard is on the northern side of the road from Brest. North of the church, near the boundary wall, is a collective grave of five airmen of the Royal Air Force and one airman of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Aircraft shot down and crashed at Kervel-en-Guilers, France, Wellington W5360, 12 Squadron, 7 July 1941.
Burial Details:
902859 Flight Sergeant Kenneth Charles Amy, Air Gunner in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 22. Son of William G. Amy and Emily J. Amy, of St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"
37031 Squadron Leader Andrew George Gordon Baird, Pilot in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 25. Son of Douglas William Gordon Baird and of Lucy Wilson Baird, of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire. His headstone bears the inscription "Always In My Thoughts"
551290 Sergeant Thomas Oakley Burgess, D. F. M., Wireless Operator in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 21. Son of Thomas Henry and Bertha Emily Burgess, of Mitcham, Surrey. His headstone bears the inscription "A Departure To Make Reunion Dearer. Mum And Dad"
401290 Sergeant Charles Hepburn Robson, 12 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, killed 7th July 1941, aged 24. Son of Charles William Hepburn and Christina Robson, of Feilding, Auckland, New Zealand.
22154 Flying Officer William Francis Ward, Observer in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 35. Son of William and Mary Ward; husband of Denise Marcelle Ward, of Les Ormes, St. Yvoine, Puy-de-Dome, France.
77968 Flying Officer Stanley Page Watkins, Air Gunner in 12 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, killed 7th July 1941, aged 34. Son of James Watkins and Frances E. Watkins, of Copnor, Hampshire. His headstone bears the inscription "He Believed In England And Live His Life So That All Men Could Be Free"
