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RANRUPT MIXED NATIONAL CEMETERY

Bas-Rhin

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.37082, Longitude: 7.198

Location Information

Ranrupt is a village some 47 kilometres south-west of Strasbourg, and it lies about 5 kilometres east of the main road from Strasbourg through Schirneck to St. Die (N. 392 and N. 420). The cemetery is on the southern side of the village at the end of a track leading south-west off the road which goes to the hamlet of La Salcee. The 3 Commonwealth war graves are near the entrance, on the southern side of the main path. 

No. of Identified Casualties: 3


Cemetery Pictures © Conrad Freeling

Ranrupt Mixed National Cemetery
Ranrupt Mixed National Cemetery
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171626 Pilot Officer
Harold Edward Jupp
 Pilot in 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
26th February 1944, aged 22.

Son of Charles Alfred and Florence May Jupp.

​His headstone bears the inscription "Lay Me Shrouded In The Living Leaf By Some Not Unfrequented Garden Side"

OtherBurial Details

143257 Flying Officer Anthony Owen Colan, Navigator in 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 26th February 1944, aged 31. Son of Owen John and Emma Rosalie Colan; husband of Winifride Mary Colan, of Bexleyheath, Kent. L.G.S.M. His headstone bears the inscription "And Through Him We Believe In The Noble And Brave Who Are Gone"

1300859 Sergeant James Charles Holbrook, Flight Engineer in 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 26th February 1944, aged 23. Son of Thomas Henry Holbrook, and of Florence Ann Holbrook, of Great Oakley, Essex. His headstone bears the inscription "We Cannot, Lord, Thy Purpose See, But All Is Well That's Done By Thee"
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Ranrupt Mixed National Cemetery

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The casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site. We are aware that there can be discrepancies in the numbers quoted.
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