WEYER COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin
France
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.
Burial Details
SJ/86762 Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz, Navigator in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 24th February 1944.
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.
Pictures © Conrad Freeling
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.
Burial Details
SJ/86762 Pilot Officer Meyer Edsel Schwartz, Navigator in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 24th February 1944.
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.
Pictures © Conrad Freeling
