TOGNY-AUX-BOEUFS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Marne
France
Location Information
Togny-aux-Boeufs is a village and commune in the Department of the Marne, 16 kilometres south-south-east of Châlons-en-Champagne. The communal cemetery lies on the western side of the village on the Rue Haute Rue, leading to Coupetz. Close to the rear boundary wall in the western corner is the grave of an Australian airman. Grave ref. Plot 1, Row 5, Grave 3.
Flight Details:
R.A.F. Base: East Kirkby, Lincolnshire
Unit: 630 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk I, serial LM117
Target: The railway sidings at Revigny, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed at Togny-aux-Boeufs. Flt. Sgt. Beckhouse was the only fatality. Sgt. R. F. Gannon, Flt. Sgt. S. R. Ashton and Flt. Sgt. E. H. Wells (all R.A.F.) were taken prisoner.
Flying Officer B. W. Brittain (R.A.A.F.), Flt. Sgt. E. Couchman (R.A.F.) and Sgt. D. A. Grant (R.C.A.F.) escaped capture.
Burial Details
424354 Flight Sergeant Gordon Edwin Beckhouse, Royal Australian Air Force, died 19th July 1944, aged 20. Son of Robert Cooper and Isobel Elizabeth Beckhouse of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Pictures © Barry Cuttell
Togny-aux-Boeufs is a village and commune in the Department of the Marne, 16 kilometres south-south-east of Châlons-en-Champagne. The communal cemetery lies on the western side of the village on the Rue Haute Rue, leading to Coupetz. Close to the rear boundary wall in the western corner is the grave of an Australian airman. Grave ref. Plot 1, Row 5, Grave 3.
Flight Details:
R.A.F. Base: East Kirkby, Lincolnshire
Unit: 630 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk I, serial LM117
Target: The railway sidings at Revigny, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed at Togny-aux-Boeufs. Flt. Sgt. Beckhouse was the only fatality. Sgt. R. F. Gannon, Flt. Sgt. S. R. Ashton and Flt. Sgt. E. H. Wells (all R.A.F.) were taken prisoner.
Flying Officer B. W. Brittain (R.A.A.F.), Flt. Sgt. E. Couchman (R.A.F.) and Sgt. D. A. Grant (R.C.A.F.) escaped capture.
Burial Details
424354 Flight Sergeant Gordon Edwin Beckhouse, Royal Australian Air Force, died 19th July 1944, aged 20. Son of Robert Cooper and Isobel Elizabeth Beckhouse of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Pictures © Barry Cuttell
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THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND.
