LA ROCHELLE (ST. ELOI) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Charente-Maritime
France
Location Information
La Rochelle is an important port on the Biscay coast, just over 480 kilometres from Paris. The communal cemetery is in the locality of St. Eloi, to the north-east of the town. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, to the right of the war memorial.
Burial Details
1365038 Sergeant James William McLean, Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 13th October 1942, aged 22. Son of James and Mary Merry, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire. INSCRIPTION. I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; ... NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND".
La Rochelle is an important port on the Biscay coast, just over 480 kilometres from Paris. The communal cemetery is in the locality of St. Eloi, to the north-east of the town. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, to the right of the war memorial.
Burial Details
1365038 Sergeant James William McLean, Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 13th October 1942, aged 22. Son of James and Mary Merry, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire. INSCRIPTION. I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE; ... NEITHER SHALL ANY MAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF MY HAND".