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LOCHES-SUR-OURCE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Aube

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.05957, Longitude: 4.50755

Location Information

Loches-sur-Ource is a village 42 kilometres south-east of Troyes and 25 kilometres south-west of Bar-sur-Aube, a town on the Paris-Troyes-Chaumont road. The Communal Cemetery is on the south-eastern side of the village on the road to Essoyes.

Total Burials: 7. 

World War Two Identified Casualties: Canada 5, United Kingdom 2. Total 7.



Flight Details:

Base: R.A.F. Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire
Unit: 576 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial ND994
Target: Revigny, Jura, France
Incident: Aircraft crashed at Loches-sur-Ource in the Department of the Aube. There were no survivors.


Cemetery Pictures and Flight Details © Barry Cuttell
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Loches-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
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1532959 Sergeant
William Walker Beattie
576 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
15th July 1944, aged 20.

Son of William Storey Beattie and Elizabeth Jane Beattie, of Hylton, Co. Durham.

His headstone bears the inscription "They Died That Others Might Live"





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R/180195 Flight Sergeant
Stanley John Koslowski
576 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
15th July 1944.





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J/25837 Flying Officer
Raymond Edwin Linklater
576 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
15th July 1944.




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J/29691 Flying Officer
Donald McKenzie Mackintosh
576 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
15th July 1944.




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R/118907 Flight Sergeant
William John McCollum
576 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
15th July 1944, aged 21.


Son of John and Elsie McCollum, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "He Died The Helpless To Defend A Faithful Airman's 



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Original Grave Marker for Stanley John Koslowski
Other Two Burials

2211889 Sergeant John Wellington Gordon Pringle, 576 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 15th July 1944, aged 27. Son of Russell and Alice Maud Pringle; husband of Barbara Pringle, of Hightown, Lancashire. His headstone bears the inscription "God Bless"

R/208935 Flight Sergeant George Robert Sims, 576 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force, died 15th July 1944.

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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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