MOYENMOUTIER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Vosges
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.37621, Longitude: 6.91288
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Moyenmoutier is a small town and commune 41 kilometres north-east of Épinal, and some 10 kilometres north-north-west of St Die. The town is situated on the road which runs to the village of St Blaise from the main Luneville to St Die road. The communal cemetery lies on the south-east side of the town, and contains, south-west of the monument on the central path, the grave of one British soldier.
Historical Information
The eleven French Resistant Fighters were tortured and killed at the Barodet Sawmill on 22nd October 1944.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
304006 Lieutenant
James Lovitt Silly
2nd Special Air Service Regiment, A. A. C.
Shot after being captured at Saint-Prayel on 22nd October 1944, aged 20. His name is also inscribed on a plaque at Moussey Churchyard
Son of Benjamin James Silly M. C. & D. F. C. and Frances Fanny Silly, of Berkhamsted. Hertfordshire.
His father also fell and is buried in Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong.
His headstone bears the inscription "Splendid You Passed O Valiant Heart Into The Light That Shall Never Fade"
James Lovitt Silly
2nd Special Air Service Regiment, A. A. C.
Shot after being captured at Saint-Prayel on 22nd October 1944, aged 20. His name is also inscribed on a plaque at Moussey Churchyard
Son of Benjamin James Silly M. C. & D. F. C. and Frances Fanny Silly, of Berkhamsted. Hertfordshire.
His father also fell and is buried in Sai Wan War Cemetery in Hong Kong.
His headstone bears the inscription "Splendid You Passed O Valiant Heart Into The Light That Shall Never Fade"
