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CANDAS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Somme

​France


Location Information

Candas is a village nearly 25 kilometres north of Amiens and about 9 kilometres south-west of Doullens. The village is on the road from Doullens to Picquigny. The Communal Cemetery is on the north-western side of the village and in the western half of the Cemetery, north-west of the main path are the graves of four British soldiers, one of whom is not identified.


World War One Burial


121198 Air Mechanic 3rd Class, H. Brooks. No. 2 Aircraft Depot. Royal Flying Corps, formerly 13th Bn. Essex Regt. Died 29th Jan. 1918. 


World War Two Burials


T/35081 Driver David Evans Dennis, Royal Army Service Corps, died 20th May 1940, aged 40. Son of John and Mary Ann Dennis; husband of Olive May Dennis, of Hawley, Hampshire.

T/123436 Driver Emrys Jones, Royal Army Service Corps, died 20th May 1940, aged 22. Son of Llewelyn and Margaret Jones, of Llanrwst, Denbighshire; husband of Jennie Margaretta Jones, of Llanrwst.

S/152635 Private Alfred William Williams, Royal Army Service Corps, died 20th May 1940, aged 24. Son of Albert Daniel and Lydia Mabel Williams, of Portsmouth.


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