ROSCANVEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistère
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.31435, Longitude: -4.55167
Location Information
Roscanvel is an awkwardly situated village and commune some 49 kilometres north-west of Quimper and 36 kilometres north-west of Châteaulin. The village is on the coast of the Rade de Brest, on a road which turns off the Chateaulin Camaret road at Crozon. It is most conveniently reached by taxi from Quimper. The communal cemetery is on the western side of a third-class road leading from the church, and is about 200 yards from that church. In the south-western corner, west of the memorial, are the graves of six airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Historical Information
All six crew members were in 612 Squadron, Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and were killed on 27th March 1942.
Burial Details
60551 Flying Officer William Desmond Stuart Bow (Pilot)
542219 Sergeant Leonard Kitchener Newman (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner), aged 26. Son of William and Ann Newman; husband of Ethel Doris Newman, of Stoke Newington, London.
106515 Flying Officer John Wheatley Goldsmith Potter (Observer), aged 25. Son of Frederick John Goldsmith Potter and of Kathleen Annie Potter, of Greenhithe, Kent. his headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory Of My Darling John. Mother"
65505 Pilot Officer Douglas Murray Stein (Pilot), aged 25. Son of William Murdoch Stein and of Anne Pringle Murray Stein, of Taymount, East Newport, Fife. His headstone bears the inscription "Younger Son Of The Late William M. Stein, Taymount, E. Newport, Fife. Scotland"
1262418 Sergeant Harold Malcolm Tookey (Wireless Opeator/Air Gunner), aged 28. Son of William Hall Tookey and Kate Tookey, of Tottenham, Middlesex. His headstone bears the inscription "They Died That We Might Live"
922519 Sergeant Douglas Arthur Young (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner). Son of Florence Young, of Bath, Somerset.
Roscanvel is an awkwardly situated village and commune some 49 kilometres north-west of Quimper and 36 kilometres north-west of Châteaulin. The village is on the coast of the Rade de Brest, on a road which turns off the Chateaulin Camaret road at Crozon. It is most conveniently reached by taxi from Quimper. The communal cemetery is on the western side of a third-class road leading from the church, and is about 200 yards from that church. In the south-western corner, west of the memorial, are the graves of six airmen of the Royal Air Force.
Historical Information
All six crew members were in 612 Squadron, Royal Air Force and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and were killed on 27th March 1942.
Burial Details
60551 Flying Officer William Desmond Stuart Bow (Pilot)
542219 Sergeant Leonard Kitchener Newman (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner), aged 26. Son of William and Ann Newman; husband of Ethel Doris Newman, of Stoke Newington, London.
106515 Flying Officer John Wheatley Goldsmith Potter (Observer), aged 25. Son of Frederick John Goldsmith Potter and of Kathleen Annie Potter, of Greenhithe, Kent. his headstone bears the inscription "In Proud And Loving Memory Of My Darling John. Mother"
65505 Pilot Officer Douglas Murray Stein (Pilot), aged 25. Son of William Murdoch Stein and of Anne Pringle Murray Stein, of Taymount, East Newport, Fife. His headstone bears the inscription "Younger Son Of The Late William M. Stein, Taymount, E. Newport, Fife. Scotland"
1262418 Sergeant Harold Malcolm Tookey (Wireless Opeator/Air Gunner), aged 28. Son of William Hall Tookey and Kate Tookey, of Tottenham, Middlesex. His headstone bears the inscription "They Died That We Might Live"
922519 Sergeant Douglas Arthur Young (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner). Son of Florence Young, of Bath, Somerset.
