QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Morbihan
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 47.4878, Longitude: -3.12017
Location Information
Quiberon is a small coastal town nearly 22 kilometres south-south-west of Auray. The communal cemetery is on the northern outskirts of the town, on the western side of the road to Plouhamel.
Historical Information
North (far right) of the entrance, near the western boundary wall, are the graves of six airmen. One of the men of the Royal Australian Air Force is unidentified, he was originally buried in Houat Isle Churchyard.
Burial Details
63433 Pilot Officer Arthur John Dearden, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd September 1941, aged 24. Son of James William and Ellen Gertrude Dearden; husband of Angela Dearden, of Maidenhead, Berkshire. his headstone bears the inscription "One Of England's Noblest Sons. Harrow, Trinity College Cambridge, Inner Temple"
993605 Sergeant William Robert Furzey, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd December 1941, aged 21. Son of William and Annie Elizabeth Furzey, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "If I Take The Wings Of The Morning... Even There Shall Thy Hand Lead Me"
404313 Sergeant Thomas Cunnah Hobgen, Royal Australian Air Force, died 4th August 1942, aged 21. Son of Thornas and Daisy Adelaide Hobgen, of Toowong, Queensland, Australia. his headstone bears the inscription "They Shall Not Grow Old As We Who Are Left Grow Old"
40843 Flight Lieutenant John Reginald Noble, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd DEcember 1941, aged 23. Son of James Morton Noble and Margarita May Osith Noble; husband of Yvonne Margaret Somerville Noble, of Oxford. His headstone bears the inscription "Proud And Daring R. I. P."
P/794728 Starsky Sierzant Antoni Ostrowski, 305 Squadron, Polish Air Force, died 23rd September 1942, aged 32.
Quiberon is a small coastal town nearly 22 kilometres south-south-west of Auray. The communal cemetery is on the northern outskirts of the town, on the western side of the road to Plouhamel.
Historical Information
North (far right) of the entrance, near the western boundary wall, are the graves of six airmen. One of the men of the Royal Australian Air Force is unidentified, he was originally buried in Houat Isle Churchyard.
Burial Details
63433 Pilot Officer Arthur John Dearden, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd September 1941, aged 24. Son of James William and Ellen Gertrude Dearden; husband of Angela Dearden, of Maidenhead, Berkshire. his headstone bears the inscription "One Of England's Noblest Sons. Harrow, Trinity College Cambridge, Inner Temple"
993605 Sergeant William Robert Furzey, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd December 1941, aged 21. Son of William and Annie Elizabeth Furzey, of Scarborough, Yorkshire. His headstone bears the inscription "If I Take The Wings Of The Morning... Even There Shall Thy Hand Lead Me"
404313 Sergeant Thomas Cunnah Hobgen, Royal Australian Air Force, died 4th August 1942, aged 21. Son of Thornas and Daisy Adelaide Hobgen, of Toowong, Queensland, Australia. his headstone bears the inscription "They Shall Not Grow Old As We Who Are Left Grow Old"
40843 Flight Lieutenant John Reginald Noble, 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 2nd DEcember 1941, aged 23. Son of James Morton Noble and Margarita May Osith Noble; husband of Yvonne Margaret Somerville Noble, of Oxford. His headstone bears the inscription "Proud And Daring R. I. P."
P/794728 Starsky Sierzant Antoni Ostrowski, 305 Squadron, Polish Air Force, died 23rd September 1942, aged 32.
