SOULAC-SUR-MER (OLIVES) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Gironde
France
Location Information
Soulac-sur-Mer is a town and commune some 86 kilometres north-west of Bordeaux, on the main road from Bordeaux to the top of the peninsula formed by the estuary of the River Gironde. The communal cemetery is north of the town, on the western side of the main road to Le Verdon-sur-Mer, in that part of the commune known as "des Olives", and is locally known as "Cimetière des Olives". There are four British war graves in this burial ground, in section "Z" which is approximately in the middle of the cemetery. Here rest one sailor (unidentified), two soldiers and one airman belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom.
Burial Details
1898551 Sergeant William Brian Bartholomew, 619 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th January 1945.
7594242 Private William Lillico, 1 Base Ordnance Depot, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, died 17th June 1940, aged 27.
Son of Mary Lillico, of Coldstream, Berwickshire. INSCRIPTION. UNTIL THE DAY DAWN.
T/109755 Private Noel Parry, Royal Army Service Corps, died 17th June 1940, aged 23. Son of John Thomas Parry and Annie Mary Parry, of Dronfield Yorkshire. INSCRIPTION. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.
Soulac-sur-Mer is a town and commune some 86 kilometres north-west of Bordeaux, on the main road from Bordeaux to the top of the peninsula formed by the estuary of the River Gironde. The communal cemetery is north of the town, on the western side of the main road to Le Verdon-sur-Mer, in that part of the commune known as "des Olives", and is locally known as "Cimetière des Olives". There are four British war graves in this burial ground, in section "Z" which is approximately in the middle of the cemetery. Here rest one sailor (unidentified), two soldiers and one airman belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom.
Burial Details
1898551 Sergeant William Brian Bartholomew, 619 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 8th January 1945.
7594242 Private William Lillico, 1 Base Ordnance Depot, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, died 17th June 1940, aged 27.
Son of Mary Lillico, of Coldstream, Berwickshire. INSCRIPTION. UNTIL THE DAY DAWN.
T/109755 Private Noel Parry, Royal Army Service Corps, died 17th June 1940, aged 23. Son of John Thomas Parry and Annie Mary Parry, of Dronfield Yorkshire. INSCRIPTION. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.
