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WEYER COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Bas-Rhin

France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.85579, Longitude: 7.16553

Location Information

Weyer is a village 54 kilometres north-west of Strasbourg and 20 kilometres north-west of Saverne, a town and sub-Prefecture on the Paris-Strasbourg road (N.4) and railway. The communal cemetery is on the eastern side of the village, on the road to Drulingen. In the northern corner is the joint grave of 2 airmen, 1 of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and one to the Royal Canadian Air Force. 

No. of Identified Casualties: 2.



Cemetery Pictures © Conrad Freeling
Weyer Communal Cemetery
Weyer Communal Cemetery
Weyer Communal Cemetery
Weyer Communal Cemetery
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SJ/86762 Pilot Officer 
Meyer Edsel Schwartz
Navigator in 405 Squadron, 
Royal Canadian Air Force
​24th February 1944.

Other Burial Details

1870924 Sergeant Cyril Wallace Langford Tongue, Flight Engineer in 405 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 24th February 1944, aged 20. Son of Wallace William and Florence Victoria Tongue, of Moseley, Birmingham.​ His headstone bears the inscription "In Loving Memory Of Cyril. At The Going Down Of The Sun We Will Remember"

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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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