LE PERTRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Ille-et-Vilaine
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.03035, Longitude: -1.03651
Location Information
The village and commune of Le Pertre lies 48 kilometres east of Rennes and 16 kilometres south-east of Vitre, a small town on the Rennes-Laval road (N.157). The cemetery is south of the village, on the D.29 road to St. Poix.
There are 4 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, near the south-eastern corner.
Burial Details
1452166 Flight Sergeant Norman Dixon, Navigator and Bomber in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th July 1944, aged 22. Son of James Henry Dixon and of Margaret Emma Dixon, of Birkenshaw, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Lest We Forget. There's Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is For Ever England"
657733 Flight Sergeant Frederick William Halsey, Pilot in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th July 1944.
1579118 Sergeant Thomas Henry McCaffrey, Radio Operator in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th July 1944, aged 20. Son of Edith Mary McCaffrey, of Nottingham. His headstone bears the inscription "Time Cannot Darken Nor Shadows Dim The Beautiful Memories We Keep Of Him"
412517 Warrant Officer Harry Donald Parker, Air Gunner in 88 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, died 8th July 1944, aged 24. Son of Henry Leslie and Lucy Pearl Parker, of Auckland City, New Zealand.
The village and commune of Le Pertre lies 48 kilometres east of Rennes and 16 kilometres south-east of Vitre, a small town on the Rennes-Laval road (N.157). The cemetery is south of the village, on the D.29 road to St. Poix.
There are 4 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, near the south-eastern corner.
Burial Details
1452166 Flight Sergeant Norman Dixon, Navigator and Bomber in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th July 1944, aged 22. Son of James Henry Dixon and of Margaret Emma Dixon, of Birkenshaw, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "Lest We Forget. There's Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is For Ever England"
657733 Flight Sergeant Frederick William Halsey, Pilot in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 8th July 1944.
1579118 Sergeant Thomas Henry McCaffrey, Radio Operator in 88 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th July 1944, aged 20. Son of Edith Mary McCaffrey, of Nottingham. His headstone bears the inscription "Time Cannot Darken Nor Shadows Dim The Beautiful Memories We Keep Of Him"
412517 Warrant Officer Harry Donald Parker, Air Gunner in 88 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, died 8th July 1944, aged 24. Son of Henry Leslie and Lucy Pearl Parker, of Auckland City, New Zealand.
