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OSMANVILLE ST. CLEMENT CHURCHYARD

Calvados

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.3384, Longitude: -1.09944

Location Information

Osmanville is a village on the Bayeux-Isigny-Cherbourg road. It is 28 kilometres west of Bayeux and 2 kilometres north-east of Isigny. St Clement is a hamlet 2 kilometres north-west of Osmanville on the road to Gefosse.

​There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, in the north-west corner of the churchyard, near the entrance gate.


Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
Osmanville St. Clement Churchyard
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1866432 Sergeant 
Gerald John James Ashpole 

Flight Engineer in 97 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
6th June 1944, aged 18.

Avro Lancaster III / ND815 / OF-G
Take Off Station Coningsby
Night Raid Operation St Pierre-de-Mont

Gerald John James Ashpole was born on 16th November 1925 in West Ham, Essex. His father was George W Ashpole, a Works Manager, and his mother was Frances (née Osborn). He attended Jubilee School in Bury St Edmunds and in 1938 the County School for Boys – now known as Gravesend Grammar School. 

In 1940 Gerald left the School and worked at Martin’s Garage, Singlewell Road, Gravesend. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves on the 17th May 1943. 

On 6th June 1944 – D-Day – flying in a Lancaster III ND815 OF-G, Gerald and his fellow crew members took part in Operation St.Pierre. They were tasked to bomb a coastal defence battery at St. Pierre-du-Mont, Normandy – an early morning attack on the gun battery at Point-du-Hoc, which overlooked the D-Day beaches. The plane crashed at Osmanville in the Department of Calvados, 2 km north east of Isigny-sur-Mer.

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