SARZEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Morbihan
France
Location Information
Sarzeau is a village in the Morbihan Department of France, about 14 kilometres south of Vannes. Enter Sarzeau on the D780 and take the first road into the town at Bourg. Continue along the road until you arrive at a retirement home. Take the "Route du Golf" and 100 metres on the right the communal cemetery is located on a 'no through road' called "Impasse de Gree". The two burials will be found on the left of the cemetery entrance against a wall.
Burial Details
3779240 Private Thomas Diamond, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) and No. 2 Commando, died 28th March 1942.
R/69360 Flight Sergeant James Lester Watkinson, 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 16th November 1942, aged 24. Son of Harry T. Watkinson and Edna Mae Watkinson, of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. INSCRIPTION. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS PEOPLE.
Sarzeau is a village in the Morbihan Department of France, about 14 kilometres south of Vannes. Enter Sarzeau on the D780 and take the first road into the town at Bourg. Continue along the road until you arrive at a retirement home. Take the "Route du Golf" and 100 metres on the right the communal cemetery is located on a 'no through road' called "Impasse de Gree". The two burials will be found on the left of the cemetery entrance against a wall.
Burial Details
3779240 Private Thomas Diamond, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) and No. 2 Commando, died 28th March 1942.
R/69360 Flight Sergeant James Lester Watkinson, 115 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 16th November 1942, aged 24. Son of Harry T. Watkinson and Edna Mae Watkinson, of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. INSCRIPTION. GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS PEOPLE.
