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LE GUÉ-DE-LA-CHAÎNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Orne

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.37528, Longitude: 0.52725

Location Information

Le Gué-de-la-Châine is a village and commune 36 kilometres by road east-south-east of Alençon, on the D.955 road to Nogent-le-Rotrou and Châteaudun. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village on the D.955 road. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, west of the monument in the centre, and near the west wall.

Images in this gallery © Johan Pauwels

Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
Le Gué-de-la-Châine Communal Cemetery
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414694 Warrant Officer 
Donald Bertram Kairton

Royal Australian Air Force
14th June 1944, aged 22. 

Son of Wilfred and Evelyn Kairton, of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.

His headstone bears the inscription "Remembering Him Who Died For Us "Don" Also Died That We Might Live"


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NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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La Bosse Communal Cemetery
La rouge Communal Cemetery
NOGENT-LE-ROTROU COMMUNAL CEMETERY


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