HARGNIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Ardennes
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.02114, Longitude: 4.78988
Location Information
Hargnies is a village in the Department of the Ardennes near the Franco-Belgian frontier, 28 kilometres north of Mezieres and 6 kilometres north-east of Haybes, a town on the River Meuse. The Communal Cemetery is 260 metres north of the village church.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 4, Canada 1, New Zealand 1. Total 6.
Hargnies is a village in the Department of the Ardennes near the Franco-Belgian frontier, 28 kilometres north of Mezieres and 6 kilometres north-east of Haybes, a town on the River Meuse. The Communal Cemetery is 260 metres north of the village church.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 4, Canada 1, New Zealand 1. Total 6.
Cemetery images © Johan Pauwels
R/85609 Flight Sergeant
Donald Mathieson
156 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
20th May 1942.
Donald Mathieson
156 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
20th May 1942.
946087 Sergeant
Charles Corbett Stevens
156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
20th May 1942.
Charles Corbett Stevens
156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
20th May 1942.
Other Burials
104573 Pilot Officer Denis Hellyer, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942, aged 25. Son of Frank Orlando and Hilda Evelyn Hellyer, of Guildford, Surrey.
41858 Squadron Leader Thomas Campbell McGillivray, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 20th May 1942, aged 26. Son of Robert and Sarah Elizabeth McGillivray, of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand; husband of Eva French McGillivray, of North Berwick, East Lothian. His headstone bears the inscription "Steel-True and Blade-Straight"
120171 Pilot Officer Edward Francis Valentine 156 Squadron, ShipRoyal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942, aged 20. Son of William Francis and Eliza Jane Craig Valentine, of Netherlee, Glasgow. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died In The Service He Loved, And For That In Which He Believed"
129281 Pilot Officer Kenneth Vincent Whelan, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942.
104573 Pilot Officer Denis Hellyer, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942, aged 25. Son of Frank Orlando and Hilda Evelyn Hellyer, of Guildford, Surrey.
41858 Squadron Leader Thomas Campbell McGillivray, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 20th May 1942, aged 26. Son of Robert and Sarah Elizabeth McGillivray, of Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand; husband of Eva French McGillivray, of North Berwick, East Lothian. His headstone bears the inscription "Steel-True and Blade-Straight"
120171 Pilot Officer Edward Francis Valentine 156 Squadron, ShipRoyal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942, aged 20. Son of William Francis and Eliza Jane Craig Valentine, of Netherlee, Glasgow. His headstone bears the inscription "He Died In The Service He Loved, And For That In Which He Believed"
129281 Pilot Officer Kenneth Vincent Whelan, 156 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 20th May 1942.
