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THURÉ COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Vienne

France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 46.83155, Longitude: 0.45317

Thuré Communal Cemetery
Image © Thierry Grier

​Location Information

Thuré is a village 29 kilometres north-east of Poitiers and 7 kilometres north-west of Châtellerault. The communal cemetery is 150 metres down a lane, opposite the main entrance to the church.

​There are 13 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war buried in a plot almost in the centre of the cemetery on the edge of a new extension.

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All images © Thierry Grier

Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
Thuré Communal Cemetery
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Thuré Communal Cemetery
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175398 Flying Officer
Derek Wilfred Best
50 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
10th August 1944, aged 21.

Son of Kenneth W. Best and Gladys A. Best, of Cottingham, Yorkshire.

His headstone bears the inscription "Greatly Loved By Those That Knew Him"




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​J/89086 Pilot Officer
Elmo Foster Christy
619 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
10th August 1944, aged 20.

Son of Foster Judson Christy and Ethel Lucretia Christy, of Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada; grandson of Annie Castoria Christy.

His headstone bears the inscription "In Memory Of A Dearly Loved Grandson. Grandmother Christy"

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1103799 Sergeant
Edward Leslie Colley
619 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
10th August 1944, aged 30.

Son of William and Elizabeth Colley, of Newtown, Montgomeryshire.

His headstone bears the inscription "A Token Of Love And Remembrance Of One We Shall Never Forget"





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1806234 Sergeant
William Frederick Slatter
50 Squadron, 
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
10th August 1944, aged 22.

Son of William Robert and Alma Slatter, of Bromley, Kent.

His headstone bears the inscription "Ever In Our Thoughts"



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CHÂTELLERAULT NORTHERN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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