ROCHEFORT-SUR-MER NAVAL CEMETERY
Charente-Maritime
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 45.94505, Longitude: -0.96484
Location Information
Rochefort-sur-Mer is a naval port near the mouth of the River Charente and some 480 kilometres from Paris. Rochefort-sur-Mer Naval Cemetery is near the Naval Hospital, which is at the north-east of the Rue Denfert-Rochereau, to the north-west of the town centre. (The cemetery is within the former Naval Base) There are 29 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, 1 of which is unidentified, and they are located in the north-east corner of the cemetery.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 28.
Unidentified Casualty: 1
Rochefort-sur-Mer is a naval port near the mouth of the River Charente and some 480 kilometres from Paris. Rochefort-sur-Mer Naval Cemetery is near the Naval Hospital, which is at the north-east of the Rue Denfert-Rochereau, to the north-west of the town centre. (The cemetery is within the former Naval Base) There are 29 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, 1 of which is unidentified, and they are located in the north-east corner of the cemetery.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 28.
Unidentified Casualty: 1
Entrance and British War Graves
Pictures © Jean-Claude Graux
Individual Headstones
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Pictures © Jean-Claude Graux
78912 Wing Commander
John Gordon Halliday
59 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
3rd December 1945, aged 30.
Son of John and Ann Elizabeth Halliday; husband of Frances Mary Halliday, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. B.A. (Oxon.), Merton College, Blue for Cricket, 1935.
His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory"
John Gordon Halliday
59 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
3rd December 1945, aged 30.
Son of John and Ann Elizabeth Halliday; husband of Frances Mary Halliday, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. B.A. (Oxon.), Merton College, Blue for Cricket, 1935.
His headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory"
11423258 Private
Frederick James Parkin
2nd Bn. Border Regiment
3rd December 1945, aged 34.
Son of Frederick and Annie Parkin, of Scotswood, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
His headstone bears the inscription "How Sweet To Know Though Far Apart We Thus Can Meet In Mind And Heart"
Frederick James Parkin
2nd Bn. Border Regiment
3rd December 1945, aged 34.
Son of Frederick and Annie Parkin, of Scotswood, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
His headstone bears the inscription "How Sweet To Know Though Far Apart We Thus Can Meet In Mind And Heart"
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