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MAREIL-LE-GUYON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Yvelines

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.79396, Longitude: 1.84649

Location Information

Mareil-le-Guyon is a village 22 kilometres west of Versailles and 16 kilometres north of Rambouillet. The Communal Cemetery is north of the village on the road from the village to the main Versailles-Dreux road.


History Information

The collective grave of 7 airmen, 5 belonging to the Royal Air Force, 1 to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and 1 to the Royal Australian Air Force is near the entrance.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery
Mareil-le-Guyon Communal Cemetery

All Seven Airmen were in 166 Squadron and killed on 11th June 1944.
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R/206095 Flight Sergeant 
William Ralph Meddick
Air Gunner in Royal Canadian Air Force, aged 21. 

​Son of Walter and Beatrice Meddick, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, husband of Patricia Meddick, of Toronto.

His headstone bears the inscription "God Moves In A Mysterious Way His Wonders To Perform"



Other Burial Details

1803037 Sergeant James Alfred Cunningham, Flight Engineer in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 20. Son of George and Florence Cunningham, of Charlton, London. His headstone bears the inscription "He Gave His Tomorrow To Give Us Our Today. Mum And Dad"

1628242 Sergeant Geoffrey Hodder-Williams, Air Gunner in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 19. Son of Robert Percy and Ragnhild Hodder-Williams, of Sevenoaks, Kent. His headstone bears the inscription "In Everloving Memory Of Our Darling Geoff. "I Brought You Unto Myself_

426369 Flight Sergeant Augustus Ronald Moller, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 20. Son of Peter William and Winifred Eleanor Moller, of Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia. His headstone bears the inscription "Thy Will Be Done"

173547 Pilot Officer Peter Shaw, Pilot in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 22. Son of John Standen Shaw and Gladys Kathleen Shaw, of Bettws-Y-Coed, Carnarvonshire.

1600337 Sergeant Edward George Smith, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 22.
Son of Frederick George and Sylvia Mabel Smith; of Bitterne Park, Southampton. His headstone bears the inscription "To Live In The Hearts Of Those We Love Is Not To Die"


1459087 Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rookby Ward, Navigator in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 23. Son of Arthur Rookby Ward and Edith Evelyn Ward, of Stockport, Cheshire. His headstone bears the inscription "We All Shall Remember"
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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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