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MARCOLS-LES-EAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Ardèche

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 44.81575, Longitude: 4.40261​

Location Information

Marcols-les-Eaux is a rather isolated village and commune in the Department of the Ardèche, 18 kilometres north-west of Privas. The village is situated on the road from Mezilhac to St. Sauveur-de-Montagut, which is the main road from La Voulte-sur-Rhone and to le Cheylard. 

The cemetery is on a hillside east of the village, near the churchyard, on the north side of the Mezilhac-St. Sauveur road. The graves are to be found north-east of the main entrance.

Casualties: United Kingdom 4, Australia 1, Canada 1. Total 6.


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Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
Marcols-les-Eaux Communal Cemetery
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159713 Pilot Officer
 Jacques Barthelemey
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
4th November 1943, aged 19. 

​Son of Henri William Achille and Madeleine Barthelemy, of Raynes Park, Surrey.

His headstone bears the inscription "Apportant Les Armes Liberatrices A Ses Camarades De La Resistance"



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158788 Pilot Officer
Henry Fitzgerald Hodges
138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
4th November 1943, aged 21. 

Son of Henry Blomfield Hodges and Eileen Josephine Hodges, of Sevenoaks, Kent.

His headstone bears the inscription "Not Only To-Day But Every Day In Silence I Remember"



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133087 Flying Officer
Ronald Edward Pulling
Air Bomber in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
4th November 1943, aged 26. 

Son of Richard and Amelia Pulling, of Romford, Essex. B.A., Hons.

His headstone bears the inscription "So Dearly Loved, So Sadly Missed By His Sorrowing Mother, Father And Sisters"



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522461 Flight Sergeant
Harry Smith
Flight Navigator (Bomber), in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force
4th November 1943, aged 27. 

Son of Charles and Agnes Smith; husband of Miriam Dorothy Smith, of Norwich.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Loving Memory Of My Darling Husband, Wife Miriam And Daughter Mavis"







Other Burial Details

425736 Flight Sergeant Reginald Lance Nott, Royal Australian Air Force, died 4th November 1943, aged 23. Son of James William Milton Nott and Grace Veronica Nott, of Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done. Always Remembered"

R/84289 Sergeant Harold Thomas Penfold, Flight Engineer in 138 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 4th November 1943. Son of Thomas H. Penfold and Mary Penfold, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His headstone bears the inscription "Them Also Which Sleep In Christ Jesus Will God Bring With Him. I Thess. IV. 14.

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John Brough from Tasmania in Australia was the sole survivor of a Halifax Bomber flying from RAF Tempford . Their mission was to parachute arms to the French resistance. The plane crashed into the Rocher de Bourboulas during the early hours of the 4 November 1943. The following day his six comrades were buried in this cemetery.

John Brough died on 5th September 1994 and his ashes were brought from Australia and scattered among his crew.

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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.
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