PLOUDALMÉZEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistère
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.53688, Longitude: -4.65864
Image above © Thierry Grier
Location Information
Ploudalmézeau is a village and commune about 21 kilometres north-west of Brest. The Communal Cemetery is west of the village and off the road to St. Renan.
History Information
In the North-East quarter (near right) is 1 burial of an unidentified Canadian soldier, found at sea on the 1st September, 1918. There are also 7 Airmen from World War Two buried here, 4 from the U. K. and 3 Canadian.
Ploudalmézeau is a village and commune about 21 kilometres north-west of Brest. The Communal Cemetery is west of the village and off the road to St. Renan.
History Information
In the North-East quarter (near right) is 1 burial of an unidentified Canadian soldier, found at sea on the 1st September, 1918. There are also 7 Airmen from World War Two buried here, 4 from the U. K. and 3 Canadian.
The following four Airmen took off from Portreath in Cornwall on 5th April 1943 on Operation Ramrod 63- to bomb an oil tanker in Brest. The ship was not hit but port installations were. Their plane (Lockhead Ventura I AE726) crashed neat Ploudalmézeau with all four crew members being killed.
Cemetery images © Thierry Grier
R/129312 Warrant Officer Class II
Thomas Coke Du Bose
Navigator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 26.
Thomas Coke Du Bose
Navigator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 26.
R/78909 Sergeant
Ernest Albert Norman
Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 22.
Son of Charles Templar Norman and Nellie Pearl Norman (née Pettit), of London, Ontario, Canada. Husband of Dorothy Jean Norman (née Lucier), whom ha married at Windsor, Ontario on 21 October 1942.
Ernest Albert Norman
Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 22.
Son of Charles Templar Norman and Nellie Pearl Norman (née Pettit), of London, Ontario, Canada. Husband of Dorothy Jean Norman (née Lucier), whom ha married at Windsor, Ontario on 21 October 1942.
R/82703 Sergeant
Kenneth Ether Price
Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 20.
Kenneth Ether Price
Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 21 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
5th April 1943, aged 20.
Other Burial Details
1385376 Sergeant Harold Edwin Blundell, Pilot in 21 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 5th April 1943, aged 21. Son of Benjamin George and Kate Lavinia Annie Blundell, of Southgate, Middlesex. His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory Of A Brave Lad So Loved-So Missed. Mum And Dad"
1385376 Sergeant Harold Edwin Blundell, Pilot in 21 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 5th April 1943, aged 21. Son of Benjamin George and Kate Lavinia Annie Blundell, of Southgate, Middlesex. His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory Of A Brave Lad So Loved-So Missed. Mum And Dad"
The following three out of five Airmen were killed when their Hampdem AE225 was shot down and crashed near Ploudalmézeau, France on 24th July 1941. Flight Lieutenant R. B. Barr and Sergeant J. E. Wiggall were captured and interred as prisoners of war.
Cemetery images © Thierry Grier
Burial Details
88023 Pilot Officer Peter Gordon Anderson, Pilot in 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 24th July 1941, aged 22.Son of Peter and Margaret Crawford Logan Anderson. His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Remembered"
944245 Sergeant Albert Bertram Cooper, Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 24th July 1941, aged 22. Son of George and Kate Cooper, of King's Heath, Birmingham. His headstone bears the inscription "All That Is Left Is A Beautiful Memory. Loving Thoughts From Home. God Bless"
989144 Sergeant Donald Parkin, Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 24th July 1941, aged 21. Son of Harry and Annie Parkin, of Firth Park, Sheffield. His headstone bears the inscription "In Memory Of Our Only Son Who Gave His Young Life That We Might Live In Peace"
Unknown Canadian Soldier. His Body was found at Sea on the 1st of September 1918. It is possible that he died when the HMHS Llandrovery Castle was Sunk by a Submarine on the 27th of June 1918.
Image used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
