POIGNY-LA-FORÊT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Yvelines
France
Location Information
Poigny-la-Forêt is a village and commune in the Rambouillet Forest, 32 kilometres south-west of Versailles and 6 kilometres north-west of Rambouillet. The communal cemetery is north of the village on the road leading to the neighbouring village of St Leger-en-Yvelines. The two 1939-1945 Commonwealth war graves are on the east side of the central path.
Burial Details
R/183965 Flight Sergeant Douglas Paul Bernhardt, Air Gunner in 622 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 1st June 1944, aged 19. Son of Oscar George and Verda V. Harwood Bernhardt, of Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
1384133 Warrant Officer Samuel Norris, Air Gunner in 622 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 1st June 1944.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
Poigny-la-Forêt is a village and commune in the Rambouillet Forest, 32 kilometres south-west of Versailles and 6 kilometres north-west of Rambouillet. The communal cemetery is north of the village on the road leading to the neighbouring village of St Leger-en-Yvelines. The two 1939-1945 Commonwealth war graves are on the east side of the central path.
Burial Details
R/183965 Flight Sergeant Douglas Paul Bernhardt, Air Gunner in 622 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 1st June 1944, aged 19. Son of Oscar George and Verda V. Harwood Bernhardt, of Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
1384133 Warrant Officer Samuel Norris, Air Gunner in 622 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 1st June 1944.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
