MORIENVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Oise
France
Location Information
Morienval is a village and commune 60 kilometres east-south-east of Beauvais,and 8 kilometres south-west of Crépy-en-Valois. The village is reached via the Crépy-en-Valois to Compiegne road, and the communal cemetery will be found on a local road leading off to the south-east after passing the church.
History Information
The graves of 4 airmen of the Royal Air Force and 1 of the Royal Australian Air Force are in the plot on the right-hand side of the central path.
Flight Details:
Base: R.A.F. Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Unit: 460 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial NE116
Target: Reims, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed and exploded at Morienval (Oise). Flight Sgts. W. Schwilk, R.A.A.F. and W. J. Flynn R.A.A.F. survived and escaped capture.
Burial Details
1294893 Sergeant John Albert Jillings, Flight Engineer in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 28. Son of Benjamin Branford Jillings and Dora Lucy Jillings of Finchley, Middx; husband of M. R. Jillings of North Hykeham, Lincs. His brother Douglas George also died on service and is buried in Terschelling (West Terschelling) General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
1126908 Sergeant Samuel David Keenen in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944.
1304507 Sergeant Kenneth George Mason, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 23. Son of David Allen and Elizabeth Mason of Norton, Evesham, Worcs.
421453 Flight Sergeant Laurence Randolph Pearson, Royal Australian Air Force, died 23rd June 1944, aged 27. Son of Stanley Richard and Johanna Margaret Pearson of Guyra, New South Wales, Australia.
1670524 Flight Sergeant, William Worthington, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 21. Son of William and Mary Worthington, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
Morienval is a village and commune 60 kilometres east-south-east of Beauvais,and 8 kilometres south-west of Crépy-en-Valois. The village is reached via the Crépy-en-Valois to Compiegne road, and the communal cemetery will be found on a local road leading off to the south-east after passing the church.
History Information
The graves of 4 airmen of the Royal Air Force and 1 of the Royal Australian Air Force are in the plot on the right-hand side of the central path.
Flight Details:
Base: R.A.F. Binbrook, Lincolnshire
Unit: 460 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial NE116
Target: Reims, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed and exploded at Morienval (Oise). Flight Sgts. W. Schwilk, R.A.A.F. and W. J. Flynn R.A.A.F. survived and escaped capture.
Burial Details
1294893 Sergeant John Albert Jillings, Flight Engineer in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 28. Son of Benjamin Branford Jillings and Dora Lucy Jillings of Finchley, Middx; husband of M. R. Jillings of North Hykeham, Lincs. His brother Douglas George also died on service and is buried in Terschelling (West Terschelling) General Cemetery in the Netherlands.
1126908 Sergeant Samuel David Keenen in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944.
1304507 Sergeant Kenneth George Mason, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 23. Son of David Allen and Elizabeth Mason of Norton, Evesham, Worcs.
421453 Flight Sergeant Laurence Randolph Pearson, Royal Australian Air Force, died 23rd June 1944, aged 27. Son of Stanley Richard and Johanna Margaret Pearson of Guyra, New South Wales, Australia.
1670524 Flight Sergeant, William Worthington, Air Gunner in 460 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd June 1944, aged 21. Son of William and Mary Worthington, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
