VERNON (VERNONNET) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Eure

France

GPS Coordinates Latitude: 49.09917 Longitude: 1.49211

Location Information

Vernon (Vernonnet) Communal Cemetery is 1 kilometre from Vernon, across the bridge over the River Seine. The war graves are in the north-eastern part of the cemetery.

History Information

There are 18, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.

​Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 18.

Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

4042611 Private
Gordon Albert James Heaton
1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
27th August 1944, aged 21.

Son of George Gordon and Florence Beatrice Heaton, of Handsworth, Birmingham.

His headstone bears the inscription "I Am Thine My God, Thine For, In Life And In Death. Lovingly Remembered"

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Seven French Graves and the grave of Ida Winifred Benn

Ida Winifred Benn was allowed to be buried close to her son (Major Anthony Benn), who was killed in action in Vernon on August 27th, 1944, having only just successfully crossed the River Seine as part of an important Allied operation at the end of the Battle of Normandy. He is interred a very short distance away in a CWGC grave alongside other men who perished in the same action.
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All images © Johan Pauwels

NEARBY CWGC CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS
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VERNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY

GIVERNY CHURCHYARD

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