WASSY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Haute-Marne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.50318, Longitude: 4.94429
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Wassy is located 44 kilometres north-north-west of Chaumont and 15 kilometres north-west of Joinville. The cemetery lies on the north western side of the town on the road to Attancourt. The three Commonwealth war graves are located east of the entrance. There are also 44 French war graves located in a large plot.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
1623580 Sergeant
Douglas Frank Dales
Flight Engineer in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
29th June 1944, aged 26.
Son of Frank and Elsie May Dales, of Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"
Photograph supplied by Aircrew Remembered
Douglas Frank Dales
Flight Engineer in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
29th June 1944, aged 26.
Son of Frank and Elsie May Dales, of Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them"
Photograph supplied by Aircrew Remembered
Other Burial Details
178781 Pilot Officer Basil Robinson Jardine, Pilot in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th June 1944.
1569858 Sergeant William Shepherd Whyte, Air Gunner in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th June 1944, aged 23. Son of Joseph Whyte and of Mary Whyte (nee Innes), husband of Agnes Whyte, of Bedworth Heath, Bedworth, Warwickshire. His headstone bears the inscription "We Cannot, Lord, Thy Purpose See But All Is Well That's Done By Thee"
178781 Pilot Officer Basil Robinson Jardine, Pilot in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th June 1944.
1569858 Sergeant William Shepherd Whyte, Air Gunner in 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 29th June 1944, aged 23. Son of Joseph Whyte and of Mary Whyte (nee Innes), husband of Agnes Whyte, of Bedworth Heath, Bedworth, Warwickshire. His headstone bears the inscription "We Cannot, Lord, Thy Purpose See But All Is Well That's Done By Thee"
