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THEILLAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Loir-et-Cher

France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 47.31898, Longitude: 2.03611

Location Information

Theillay is a village and commune some 62 kilometres south-east of Blois. Trains are available from Paris. The Communal Cemetery is north-west of the village, east of the road to La Ferte-Inbault.


Historical Information

There are 4 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, north-north-east of the main entrance in the eastern corner.


Image below used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

THEILLAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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J/89961 Pilot Officer 
David Cornfoot Brown

Air Gunner in 626 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
1st July 1944, aged 20.

Son of David and Annie Brown, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

His headstone bears the inscription He Died That We Might Live. "Greater Love Hath No Man Than This"

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Other Burial Details

54772 Pilot Officer Archibald Orr, Pilot in 626 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died 1st July 1944, aged 24. Son of Robert Hamilton Orr and Margaret Gilmour Orr, of Denbeath, Methil, Fife. His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"

1816613 Sergeant Sidney Stone, Air Gunner in 626 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 1st July 1944. 

925205 Sergeant Thomas White, Flight Engineer in 26 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 1st July 1944. Son of Thomas and Ellen Maud White, of Hayes, Middlesex.

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langon communal cemetery
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Disclaimer


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.
(The G. P. S. Coordinates are also taken from the C. W. G. C. site)


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