RANRUPT MIXED NATIONAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.37082, Longitude: 7.198
Image above © Johan Pauwels
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.
Total Burials: 106.
Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
French World War Casualties: 92 of which 71 are unidentified
German Casualties: 11.
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.
Total Burials: 106.
Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 3.
French World War Casualties: 92 of which 71 are unidentified
German Casualties: 11.
Three World War Two Commonwealth War Graves
All images © Johan Pauwels
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"
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"
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"
