CHARMES MILITARY CEMETERY
Essegney
Vosges
France
Location Information
Charmes is a small town 25 kilometres north-west of Epinal and 44 kilometres south of Nancy. It is best reached from the junction off the motorway N.57 - E.23. The CWGC cemetery is located on the east side of the town of Charmes, on road D9 going to Damas-aux-Bois.
GPS CO-Ordinates
Longitude: 6.32385
Latitude: 48.38272
Historical Information
Charmes Military Cemetery was used by the 8th Canadian and 42nd Stationary Hospitals and enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from BAZOILLES-SUR-MEUSE French Military Cemetery, BOSSERVILLE and CHARMES Communal Cemetery Extensions, GERARDMER Communal and French Military Cemeteries, ROUCEUX French Military Cemetery, SAVIGNY Churchyard and TOUL American Cemetery.
The cemetery now contains 202 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Three of the burials are unidentified and there is a special memorial to one casualty buried in NEUFCHATEAU Communal Cemetery whose grave could not be found. The cemetery also contains 13 Second World War burials and three war graves of other nationalities.
Casualty Details: UK 147, Canada 11, India 44, Total Burials: 202 (Commonwealth)
Charmes is a small town 25 kilometres north-west of Epinal and 44 kilometres south of Nancy. It is best reached from the junction off the motorway N.57 - E.23. The CWGC cemetery is located on the east side of the town of Charmes, on road D9 going to Damas-aux-Bois.
GPS CO-Ordinates
Longitude: 6.32385
Latitude: 48.38272
Historical Information
Charmes Military Cemetery was used by the 8th Canadian and 42nd Stationary Hospitals and enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from BAZOILLES-SUR-MEUSE French Military Cemetery, BOSSERVILLE and CHARMES Communal Cemetery Extensions, GERARDMER Communal and French Military Cemeteries, ROUCEUX French Military Cemetery, SAVIGNY Churchyard and TOUL American Cemetery.
The cemetery now contains 202 burials and commemorations of the First World War. Three of the burials are unidentified and there is a special memorial to one casualty buried in NEUFCHATEAU Communal Cemetery whose grave could not be found. The cemetery also contains 13 Second World War burials and three war graves of other nationalities.
Casualty Details: UK 147, Canada 11, India 44, Total Burials: 202 (Commonwealth)
Lieutenant
Wilfrid Bissell Andrew
Regimental Depot, Canadian Infantry, (Central Ontario). seconded to Royal Flying Corps
12th February 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. G. 12.
Son of Harry A. and Alice A. Andrew, of 26, Murray St., Chatham, Ontario.
Wilfrid Bissell Andrew
Regimental Depot, Canadian Infantry, (Central Ontario). seconded to Royal Flying Corps
12th February 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. G. 12.
Son of Harry A. and Alice A. Andrew, of 26, Murray St., Chatham, Ontario.
Captain
Geoffrey Sebastian Buck, M. C., D. F. C.
215th Sqdn. Royal Air Force
3rd September 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. B. 13.
Son of Percy Carter Buck and Lucy Elizabeth Buck, of "Steep Hill," Waldron Rd., Harrow-on-the-Hill. Gazetted, 2nd Lt. 1st Bn. London Regt. (R. Fus.), Nov., 1914; Capt., July,1917.
Geoffrey Sebastian Buck, M. C., D. F. C.
215th Sqdn. Royal Air Force
3rd September 1918, aged 21.
Plot I. B. 13.
Son of Percy Carter Buck and Lucy Elizabeth Buck, of "Steep Hill," Waldron Rd., Harrow-on-the-Hill. Gazetted, 2nd Lt. 1st Bn. London Regt. (R. Fus.), Nov., 1914; Capt., July,1917.
790822 Private
Cecil Redverse Cameron
51st Coy. Canadian Forestry Corps
14th January 1919.
Plot I. F. 2.
Cecil Redverse Cameron
51st Coy. Canadian Forestry Corps
14th January 1919.
Plot I. F. 2.
159579 Flying Officer (Pilot)
Joseph Barker Moss
103 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
29th July 1944, aged 32.
Plot 2. Row A. Coll. grave 18-19.
Son of Ernest and Annie Moss, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
Joseph Barker Moss
103 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
29th July 1944, aged 32.
Plot 2. Row A. Coll. grave 18-19.
Son of Ernest and Annie Moss, of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
A German heavy artillery gun on wheeled carriage on railway platform at Epinal. © IWM (Q 56539)
