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NOYELLETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France

Location Information

Noyellette is a very small village and commune about 8 miles (13 kilometres) west of Arras, and some 3 miles south of the Arras-St. Pol road (N.39). There is an infrequent bus service on the Arras-Avesnes-le Comte route, and the village is most easily reached by taxi from Arras. The communal cemetery is on the north-eastern side of the village and south of the road (N.339) to the neighbouring village of Habarcq. In its south-eastern corner are the graves of three airmen of the Royal Air Force and one belonging to the Royal Australian Air Force.

Burial Details

127538 Flying Officer Arthur George Gordon Atkins, Pilot in 98 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 21st September 1943, aged 20. Son of William John and Winifred Mabel Grace Atkins, Of Horfield, Bristol.

412374 Flight Sergeant Allan Rothery Breakspear, Royal Australian Air Force, died 21st September 1943, aged 22. Son of Percy Charles and Emley Charlesworth Breakspear, of Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia. Optical Engineer.

1388124 Sergeant Kenneth Stanley Henry Lawson, Air Gunner in 98 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 21st September 1943, aged 20. Son of Leslie James William Lawson, and stepson of Elsie Myrtle Lawson, of East Dulwich, London.

144191 Flying Officer Samuel Arthur Raymond Tanner, Navigator in 98 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 21st September 1943, aged 30. Son of William and Florence Tanner; husband of Helen M. Tanner, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His brother Melville also died on service.


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