QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Morbihan
France
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.
Picture used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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.
Picture used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Left to right: 411390 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Claud Besnard Sautelle (lost on operations over France on 8 November 1942); Mr G. Pike, Westmount Cricket Club, Montreal; 411530 Sergeant (Sgt) Ronald Henry Sankey (killed in an accident in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1942); 411634 Flt Sgt Donald Sydney Lister (lost on operations over the Middle East on 26 April 1942); 408706 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Ronald Kenneth Senior; probably 411372 Sgt Frederick Harley Paterson (lost over the Frisian Islands in the Netherlands on 11 February 1943); G. K. Owens; S. Jerrem (Captain); “Dude” Opie; 404313 Sgt Thomas Cunnan Hobgen (lost on operations over France on 4 August 1942); probably 411552 Flt Lt Charles Bernard Thomson; L. Stuart; possibly 408715 Flying Officer [FO] Frederick Anthony Wallis (killed in an accident at Eskdale, Vic on 4 June 1945), H.L. Gates, Secretary Ottawa Valley Cricket Club. No.1 Wireless School Cricket Team in Uniform.
