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LANVÉOC COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistère
France

Location Information

Lanvéoc is a coastal village and commune about 20 miles (32 kilometres) by road north-west of Chateaulin which is on a branch railway line from Quimper. From Chateaulin there is another line to Crozon, whence a taxi completes the journey (about 2 miles) to Lanveoc. The village is on a secondary road which runs inland some 2 miles (3 kilometres) to join the main Crozon-Chateaulin road. The communal cemetery lies on the south-eastern side of the village some 50 yards from the church. Close to the boundary wall on the far right of the entrance are the graves of three airmen of the Royal Air Force, four airmen of the Royal Australian Air Force and one Polish airman.
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406587 Flight Lieutenant
Alan Pluis Whitford, D. F. C.
Royal Australian Air Force
9th May 1944, aged 23.


INSCRIPTION. JUST CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE. ALWAYS LOVINGLY REMEMBERED.

Son of Percy Russell Whitford and Hilda Grace Whitford, of Rivervale, Western Australia.

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Portrait of 406587 Pilot Officer (PO, later Flight Lieutenant [Flt Lt]) Allan Pluis Whitford, Rivervale, WA, at RAAF Overseas Headquarters. Flt Lt Whitford was killed on 9 May 1944 on operations over France, while serving with 83 Squadron RAF.


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