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MANTES-GASSICOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Yvelines
France

Location Information

Mantes is a town on the River Seine, 45 kilometres by road north-west of Versailles. Gassicourt is a district in the north-west part of the town. 

The Communal Cemetery lies in front of Ste. Anne's Church, and the graves of 2 Canadian airmen are in the southwest part, north-east of the side entrance gate.



Burial Details

J/22411 Flying Officer Alfred Hinscliffe D. F. C.  Air Bomber in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 7th May 1944, aged 25. Son of James and Elizabeth Ann Hinscliffe, of Windsor, Ontario Canada, husband of Betty Doreen Hinscliffe.

J/91133 Pilot Officer Bourneuf Freeman Pothier, D. F. C.  Air Bomber in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 7th May 1944, aged 21. Son of Luke R Pothier and Lisette E. Pothier, of Pinkney's Point, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.


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