LIÈGE (STE. WALBURGE) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Liège
Belgium
GPS Coordinates Latitude: 50.66282 Longitude: 5.57139
Location Information
From the motorway E40 which runs between Brussel and Aachen turn off at junction 33 and onto the N20 direction Ste -Walburge. Follow the N20 along and take the second turn large turning on the left called boulevard Jean De Wilde, at the junction with the end of the motorway E313 go straight on into boulevard Fosse-Crahay, the cemetery is along on the left. The graves are located to the right of the cemetery in plot 75.
Historical Information
The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany.
Liège (Ste Walburg) Communal Cemetery contains the graves of four airmen of the Second World War.
Burial Details
909837 Sergeant Dennis William Ernest Creedy, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 23. Son of Alfred Robert and Lilian Creedy, of Upper Holloway, London.
903312 Sergeant Kenneth Albert Dean, Obs. in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 24. Son of Harry Wood Dean and Alice Mary Dean, of Hawkinge, Kent; husband of Betty Linda Dean.
61034 Pilot Officer Michael William Tilley, Pilot in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941. Son of Harold William and Doris Elizabeth Tilley, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
1162621 Sergeant Owen Lawrence Mitchell Williams, Pilot in 1 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 18. Son of Capt. James Williams, Royal Corps of Signals, and Hilda Helen Williams, of Thornton Heath, Surrey.
Cemetery pictures © Johan Pauwels
From the motorway E40 which runs between Brussel and Aachen turn off at junction 33 and onto the N20 direction Ste -Walburge. Follow the N20 along and take the second turn large turning on the left called boulevard Jean De Wilde, at the junction with the end of the motorway E313 go straight on into boulevard Fosse-Crahay, the cemetery is along on the left. The graves are located to the right of the cemetery in plot 75.
Historical Information
The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany.
Liège (Ste Walburg) Communal Cemetery contains the graves of four airmen of the Second World War.
Burial Details
909837 Sergeant Dennis William Ernest Creedy, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 23. Son of Alfred Robert and Lilian Creedy, of Upper Holloway, London.
903312 Sergeant Kenneth Albert Dean, Obs. in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 24. Son of Harry Wood Dean and Alice Mary Dean, of Hawkinge, Kent; husband of Betty Linda Dean.
61034 Pilot Officer Michael William Tilley, Pilot in 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941. Son of Harold William and Doris Elizabeth Tilley, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
1162621 Sergeant Owen Lawrence Mitchell Williams, Pilot in 1 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 6th August 1941, aged 18. Son of Capt. James Williams, Royal Corps of Signals, and Hilda Helen Williams, of Thornton Heath, Surrey.
Cemetery pictures © Johan Pauwels
