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SORNÉVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Meurthe-et-Moselle
France

Location Information

Sornéville is a village and commune 18 kilometres north-east of Nancy and some 3 kilometres south of Moncel-sur-Sielle, a village on the road from Nancy to Chateau-Salins and Sarreguemines. The communal cemetery is on the south-western side of the village. At the eastern end of a row of French 1914-1918 War graves near the centre of the western half of the cemetery is the grave of an airman who belonged to the Royal Australian Air Force.
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432903 Flight Sergeant
Edward Thomas Summerson
Royal Australian Air Force
1st February 1945, aged 20.


INSCRIPTION. DEARLY LOVED AND SADLY MISSED BY LOVING MUM, DAD AND FAMILY.

Son of John Shepherd Summerson and Frances May Summerson, of Thornleigh, New South Wales, Australia.

Studio portrait of 432903 Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) Edward Thomas Summerson RAAF, 101 Squadron RAF. Flt Sgt Summerson, of Thornleigh, NSW, enlisted on 30 January 1943 and was killed on operations over France on 1 February 1945. He was 21 years of age.


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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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