STAPHORST (IJHORST) GENERAL CEMETERY
Overijssel
The Netherlands
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 52.66354, Longitude: 6.28521
Location Information
Staphorst is a village and commune 7 kilometres south of Meppel on the road to Zwolle. Ijhorst is a village in this commune about 4 kilometres north-east of Staphorst village on the road to Dewijk. The cemetery is in the centre of the village on the Dewijk road. Although it surrounds a small Protestant church it is a general cemetery and contains the graves of 6 airmen from the United Kingdom.
Staphorst is a village and commune 7 kilometres south of Meppel on the road to Zwolle. Ijhorst is a village in this commune about 4 kilometres north-east of Staphorst village on the road to Dewijk. The cemetery is in the centre of the village on the Dewijk road. Although it surrounds a small Protestant church it is a general cemetery and contains the graves of 6 airmen from the United Kingdom.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
108998 Flying Officer
Gervase Francis Benton Newport Tinley, D. F. C.
Pilot in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 20.
Son of Lt.-Col. Francis Benton Newport Tinley, M.C., Indian Army, and Cicely Sophia Newport Tinley.
His headstone bears the inscription "Toujours Sans Tache"
Gervase Francis Benton Newport Tinley, D. F. C.
Pilot in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 20.
Son of Lt.-Col. Francis Benton Newport Tinley, M.C., Indian Army, and Cicely Sophia Newport Tinley.
His headstone bears the inscription "Toujours Sans Tache"
1252825 Sergeant
Brenard Stearman Nixon
Flight Engineer in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 31.
Son of Thomas Stearman and Norah Nixon; husband of S. E. Nixon, of Feltham, Middlesex.
His headstone bears the inscription "Gone From Us But Not Forgotten Never Shall Thy Memory Fade"
Brenard Stearman Nixon
Flight Engineer in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 31.
Son of Thomas Stearman and Norah Nixon; husband of S. E. Nixon, of Feltham, Middlesex.
His headstone bears the inscription "Gone From Us But Not Forgotten Never Shall Thy Memory Fade"
1194506 Sergeant
Ben Michael Pick
Pilot in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 21.
Son of Ben and Lizzie Robinson Pick, of Benson, Oxfordshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"
Ben Michael Pick
Pilot in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
23rd December 1942, aged 21.
Son of Ben and Lizzie Robinson Pick, of Benson, Oxfordshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Him"
624640 Flight Sergeant
Henry Charles Taylor
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force
23rd December 1942, aged 23.
Son of Charles George and Elizabeth Anne Taylor; husband of Daisy Pearl Taylor, of Lewes, Sussex.
His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Country"
Henry Charles Taylor
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force
23rd December 1942, aged 23.
Son of Charles George and Elizabeth Anne Taylor; husband of Daisy Pearl Taylor, of Lewes, Sussex.
His headstone bears the inscription "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Country"
Other Airmen's Details
1331642 Cyril Clifford Hayes, Air Gunner in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd December 1942, aged 21. Son of Clifford and Rose Pretoria Hayes, of Hove, Sussex. His headstone bears the inscription "In Loving Memory. Dad And Gordon"
580998 Warrant Officer Charles Anthony Howard, D. F. C. Navigator/Bomber in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 23rd December 1942.
1331642 Cyril Clifford Hayes, Air Gunner in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 23rd December 1942, aged 21. Son of Clifford and Rose Pretoria Hayes, of Hove, Sussex. His headstone bears the inscription "In Loving Memory. Dad And Gordon"
580998 Warrant Officer Charles Anthony Howard, D. F. C. Navigator/Bomber in 138 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 23rd December 1942.
