SESSENHEIM COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.80069, Longitude: 7.98859
Location Information
Sessenheim is a commune in the Department of Bas-Rhin, some 38 kilometres north-east of Strasbourg on the A35 motorway, Exit 54. The communal cemetery is about 200 yards behind the church and Mairie, and the Commonwealth war graves are located immediately on the right when entering the cemetery.
History Information
There are 15, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 1 is unidentified.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 10, Australia 4. Total 14.
Unidentified Casualty: 1.
Sessenheim is a commune in the Department of Bas-Rhin, some 38 kilometres north-east of Strasbourg on the A35 motorway, Exit 54. The communal cemetery is about 200 yards behind the church and Mairie, and the Commonwealth war graves are located immediately on the right when entering the cemetery.
History Information
There are 15, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, 1 is unidentified.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 10, Australia 4. Total 14.
Unidentified Casualty: 1.
Images in the gallery below used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Group portrait of 30 Course, 4 Initial Training School, Royal Australian Air Force, B Squadron, 13 Flight, held between July and September 1942 at Victor Harbor in SA.
Identified in the third row, last on the right and buried in this cemetery is 417807 Howard Norman Cornish, Royal Australian Air Force who was killed in action on 12th September 1944, aged 21. bSon of Henry Denant Cornish and Esther Caroline Cornish, of Gumeracha, South Australia. His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done. Ever Remembered"
1629068 Sergeant
Arthur Bryant O'Connor
625 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12th September 1944.
Arthur Bryant O'Connor
625 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
12th September 1944.
434128 Flight Sergeant
Clifford Alexander Vieritz
622 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
12th September 1944, aged 20.
Son of Gustav Adolf and Jessie Millar Vieritz, of Darra, Queensland, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done"
Clifford Alexander Vieritz
622 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
12th September 1944, aged 20.
Son of Gustav Adolf and Jessie Millar Vieritz, of Darra, Queensland, Australia.
His headstone bears the inscription "His Duty Nobly Done"
