Marcilly Communal Cemetery
Seine-et-Marne, France

Pictures courtesy of Derek Mountjoy of TWGPP

 

Marcilly is a village and commune in the Department of the Seine-et-Marne, 58 kilometres north-north-east of Melun, and 10 kilometres north of Meaux. The Cemetery lies on the north-east side of the village on a by-road leading from the church. Near the centre are the graves of 8 airmen, 7 belonging to the Royal Air Force and 1 to the Royal Canadian Air Force

 

Flight Details:

Base: R.A.F. Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire
Unit: 61 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial DV304
Target: Revigny, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed at Marcilly. There were no survivors.

 

Burial Details:

 

Flt. Sgt. James Higgins BLANE, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 23. Son of Kate Blane of Glasgow


Flying Officer Herbert Wright COOPER, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 22. Son of John and Lilian Cooper of Bispham, Blackpool, Lancs.


Flying Officer George Albert DAVEY, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 21. Son of John Thomas and Florence Elizabeth Davey of Walthamstow, Essex


Sgt. Terence Edward HARDY, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 21. Son of Bernard Wilfred and Daisy Harriet Hardy of Swanscombe, Kent


Flying Officer Bryan Spofforth LITTLE, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 21. Son of Joseph Henry and Ethel May Little of York


Pilot Officer George McLAUGHLIN, Royal Canadian Air Force, 19th July 1944, aged 22. Son of William Robert and Emma McLaughlin of Kingston, Ontario, Canada


Sgt. Kenneth Francis MERRIFIELD, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944, aged 22. Son of Harold Gordon and Ellen Constance Merrifield of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex


Flying Officer John Bernard THOMPSON, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 19th July 1944

 

 

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