SEPTMONTS CHURCHYARD
Aisne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.33485, Longitude: 3.35809
Location Information
Septmonts is a village 8 kilometres south-east of Soissons, and 3 kilometres east of the main road (N37) from that town to Chateau-Thierry. The churchyard is beside the church in the centre of the village, and the 5 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War are located in the front left hand side of the churchyard.
World War Two Casualties: United Kingdom 3, Canada 2. Total 5.
Flight Details:
Base: East Moor, Yorkshire
Unit: 429 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Wellington, Mk III, serial BK162
Target: Mannheim, Germany
Incident: Crashed south-east of Soissons. Of the six aircrew, five are buried here but Sgt. J. R. Milne survived and escaped capture.
Septmonts is a village 8 kilometres south-east of Soissons, and 3 kilometres east of the main road (N37) from that town to Chateau-Thierry. The churchyard is beside the church in the centre of the village, and the 5 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War are located in the front left hand side of the churchyard.
World War Two Casualties: United Kingdom 3, Canada 2. Total 5.
Flight Details:
Base: East Moor, Yorkshire
Unit: 429 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Wellington, Mk III, serial BK162
Target: Mannheim, Germany
Incident: Crashed south-east of Soissons. Of the six aircrew, five are buried here but Sgt. J. R. Milne survived and escaped capture.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
J/10875 Flight Lieutenant
Gerald Alfred Lunn
Air Gunner in 429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
17th April 1943, aged 23.
Son of Edgar Charles and Mabel Lunn, of Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada.
Gerald Alfred Lunn
Air Gunner in 429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
17th April 1943, aged 23.
Son of Edgar Charles and Mabel Lunn, of Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada.
R/104442 Flight Sergeant
Douglas Samuel Ritchie
Air Bomber in 429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
17th April 1943.
Douglas Samuel Ritchie
Air Bomber in 429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
17th April 1943.
Other Burial Details
940017 Flight Sergeant George Gill, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 17th April 1943, aged 30. Son of Thomas Lidster Gill and Edith Dora Gill; husband of Margaret Ann Gill, of Meadowfield, Co. Durham. His headstone bears the inscription "A Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is Forever England"
37013 Squadron Leader Frederick Arthur Holmes, D. F. C. Pilot in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 17th April 1943, aged 28. Son of Ernest George and Maude Holmes, of Broadstairs, Kent. His headstone bears the inscription "To The Glorious Memory Of Our Dearly Loved Only Son Who Died For Us"
50436 Flying Officer John McMaster, Navigator in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 17th April 1943, aged 24. Son of Robert and Elizabeth McMaster; husband of Julia Nellie McMaster, of Norbury, Surrey.
940017 Flight Sergeant George Gill, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 17th April 1943, aged 30. Son of Thomas Lidster Gill and Edith Dora Gill; husband of Margaret Ann Gill, of Meadowfield, Co. Durham. His headstone bears the inscription "A Corner Of A Foreign Field That Is Forever England"
37013 Squadron Leader Frederick Arthur Holmes, D. F. C. Pilot in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 17th April 1943, aged 28. Son of Ernest George and Maude Holmes, of Broadstairs, Kent. His headstone bears the inscription "To The Glorious Memory Of Our Dearly Loved Only Son Who Died For Us"
50436 Flying Officer John McMaster, Navigator in 429 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 17th April 1943, aged 24. Son of Robert and Elizabeth McMaster; husband of Julia Nellie McMaster, of Norbury, Surrey.
