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MARIGNY-LE-GRAND CHURCHYARD
Marne
France

Location Information

Marigny is a village some 50 kilometres south-west of Châlons-en-Champagne and 11 kilometres south-east of Sézanne. In the churchyard, on the right of the main entrance, is the collective grave of four British, one Canadian and two Australian airmen.


Flight Details

Base: R.A.F. Binbrook, near Brookenby, Lincolnshire
Unit: 460 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk. I, serial ME740
Target: Enemy installations at Mailly-le-Camp, Aube, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed at Marigny. There were no survivors.



Burial Details

1600645 Sergeant Kenneth Applegarth, Wireless Operator in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 4th May 1944, aged 20. Son of Henry and Mary E. Applegarth of Sutton, Surrey.
 INSCRIPTION. THEY LEFT US WITH A SMILE.

Flight Sergeant William Ralph Elgar, Royal Australian Air Force, died 4th May 1944, aged 23. Son of William Bulimba and Mabel Ellen Elgard of Gympie, Queensland, Australia. INSCRIPTION. DEARLY LOVED AND EVER REMEMBERED BY PARENTS, BROTHER AND SISTERS.

416945 Flight Sergeant James George Herbert, Royal Australian Air Force, died 4th May 1944, aged 26. Son of Herbert James Cyril and Elizabeth Fry, of Walkerville, South Australia. INSCRIPTION. LOVED SON OF H. AND E. FRY OF ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA "RESTING".

950628 Sergeant Cecil George Graham, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 4th May 1944.

1816266 Sergeant Joseph Horace Holloway, Flight Engineer in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ,died 4th May 1944, aged 28. Son of Joseph and Alice Holloway; husband of Lilian Mary Holloway, of Cheylesmore, Coventry.
INSCRIPTION. GOD IN HIS MERCY WILL TENDERLY CARE FOR THE SOUL OF OUR LOVED ONE SLEEPING HERE.

151228 Flying Officer Leslie Sumner, Pilot in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ,died 4th May 1944, aged 30. Son of Thomas and Clara Sumner, of Bolton, Lancashire; husband of Constance Mary Sumner, of Smithhills, Bolton.
INSCRIPTION. IN HEAVENLY LOVE ABIDING.

J/88893 Pilot Officer Thomas Sudworth, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 4th May 1944, aged 22. Son of Richard and Margaret Winstanley, of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada. INSCRIPTION. REST IN PEACE.
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