Récey-sur-Ource Communal Cemetery
Côte d'Or, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

Récey-sur-Ource is a village 52 kilometers north-north-west of Dijon in the Department of the Côte d'Or. The cemetery is west of the village on the road leading to the nearby village of Leugloy. There are seven airman and one of the Special Air Service, A.A.C. of WW2 buried here.

 

Flight Details:

Base: R.A.F. Melbourne, Yorkshire
Unit: 10 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Halifax Mk II, serial JB961
Target: Sochaux, Doubs, France
Incident: Aircraft crashed at Récey-sur-Ource after being brought down by Fw Spätte of 4 Group, Dijon. There were no survivors

Burial Details:

 

Sgt. Stanley ARTHUR, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, 16th July 1943, aged 21. Son of Ernest Malcolm and Adeline Lillian Arthur of Dunfermline, Fife


Sgt. John Dennis Gordon BUNKER, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve. 16th July 1943.


Sgt. Bertram George Arthur COOPER, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve. 16th July 1943, aged 32. Son of George and Emily Cooper; husband of Clara Noreen Cooper of Christleton, Cheshire


Pte. Joachim KALKSTEIN, Special Air Service Regt., A.A.C. 27th August 1944, aged 24.


Sgt. Ronald Daniel McKEOWN, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, 16th July 1943, aged 20. Son of Daniel and Lilian McKeown of Blundellsands, Liverpool


Sgt. Harry Briggs MELLOR, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, 16th July 1943, aged 21. Son of Harry Briggs Mellor and Mary Mellor


Sgt. Ronald Alfred William MORSE, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, 16th July 1943, aged 23. Son of Frederick Augustus and Gwendoline May Morse of Barry, Glamorgan; husband of Doris Emily Morse of Barry


Pilot Officer Hedley Millard SMITH, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve. 16th July 1943, aged 32. Son of Henry Dawson and Jennie Smith of Sheffield; husband of Joan Smith of Sheffield

 

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