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ATHIS-MONS COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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​Essonne

​France

GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.71085, Longitude: 2.38822

Visiting Information

This communal cemetery is open Mondays to Fridays between 08.00 - 12.00, 13.30 - 17.00. It is closed on weekends and public holidays. 

Wheelchair access is possible via the main entrance.

Historical Information

Athis-Mons is 7.5 miles South of Paris. In a French Military plot in the North corner are buried six soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914.
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Images in this gallery © Christine Da Costa

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38260 Bombardier
William Henry King
"E" Battery, 
Royal Horse Artillery
12th September 1914, aged 27.


Son of William Henry and Eliza King, of 17, New England Rd., Brighton.









Other World War Two Burials

8777 Private Thomas Cunningham, 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, died 20th September 1914.

L/9644 L. D. Grant, 1st Bn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), died 25th September 1914.

10691 Private Stephen Kennedy, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 22nd August 1914, aged 23. 
Son of John E. and Bridget Kennedy, of Ardoughan, Ballina, Co. Mayo. His headstone bears the inscription "Sacred Heart Of Jesus Have Mercy On His Soul"

7353 Lance Corporal John Salt, 3rd (King's Own) Hussars, died 17th September 1914, aged 23. Son of John and Jane Salt, of 34, Hartland Rd., Isleworth, Middx.

2857 Trooper R. Smith, 
2nd Life Guards, died 20th September 1914.



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