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SARREWERDEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Bas-Rhin

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.92071, Longitude: 7.08702

Location Information

Sarrewerden is a very small village 62 kilometres north-west of Strasbourg. It has a railway station, on the Nancy- Sarreguemines line. The communal cemetery is on the south-eastern outskirts of the village in a by-road leading to the neighbouring village of Burbach. Near the middle of the eastern wall is the collective grave of 3 airmen, 1 of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and 2 to the Royal Canadian Air Force.


Cemetery Picture © Conrad Freeling
Sarrewerden Communal Cemetery
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R/189676 Flight Sergeant
Donald Irwin MacVicar
Air Gunner in 576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th July 1944. 

Son of Amos N. MacVicar and Nettie Kettyle MacVicar, of Lachine, Province of Quebec, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "Life Endeth To Begin Anew Beyond Our Sight He Liveth Still"






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J/85595 Flying Officer 
Edward James Mann, D. F. C. 
Pilot in 576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
29th July 1944, aged 20. 

Son of James C. Mann and Myra K. Mann, of Long Acres, Ontario, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription "Father, In Thy Gracious Keeping Leave We Now Thy Servant Sleeping"





Other Burial Details
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2205622 Sergeant Reginald Alan Wellesley Roberts, Flight Engineer in 576 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th July 1944, aged 19. Son of Charles Frederick and Alice Muriel Roberts, of Hazel Grove, Stockport, Cheshire. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"


NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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RIMSDORF NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
SARRALBE MILITARY CEMETERY
HIRSCHLAND CHURCHYARD

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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.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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