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SARREWERDEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin
France

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.

Burial Details


R/189676 Flight Sergeant Donald Irwin MacVicar, Air Gunner in 576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 29th July 1944. Son of Amos N. MacVicar and Nettie Kettyle MacVicar, of Lachine, Province of Quebec, Canada. INSCRIPTION. LIFE ENDETH TO BEGIN ANEW BEYOND OUR SIGHT HE LIVETH STILL.

J/85595 Flying Officer Edward James Mann, D. F. C. Pilot in 576 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 29th July 1944, aged 20. Son of James C. Mann and Myra K. Mann, of Long Acres, Ontario, Canada. INSCRIPTION. FATHER, IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING.

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.
INSCRIPTION. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.


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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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