COULOMMIERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Seine-et-Marne
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.81504, Longitude: 3.10231
Location Information
Coulommiers is a town 22 kilometres south-east of Meaux and 14 kilometres south of La Ferte Sous Jouarre. The Communal Cemetery is east of the town on the Avenue de Rebais, the road to Rebais.
History Information
Coulommiers was a French hospital centre during the First World War. The communal cemetery contains 32 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, one of which is unidentified.
Identified Burials: United Kingdom 31.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 1.
Coulommiers is a town 22 kilometres south-east of Meaux and 14 kilometres south of La Ferte Sous Jouarre. The Communal Cemetery is east of the town on the Avenue de Rebais, the road to Rebais.
History Information
Coulommiers was a French hospital centre during the First World War. The communal cemetery contains 32 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, one of which is unidentified.
Identified Burials: United Kingdom 31.
Unidentified Casualties: United Kingdom 1.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Lieutenant
Richard Thomas Cuffe
54th Squadron, Royal Air Force
21st July 1918, aged 22.
Row A. 11.
Son of George L. and Kate Cuffe, of Killasser House, Swinford, Co. Mayo.
Richard Thomas Cuffe
54th Squadron, Royal Air Force
21st July 1918, aged 22.
Row A. 11.
Son of George L. and Kate Cuffe, of Killasser House, Swinford, Co. Mayo.
Lieutenant
Athelstan Key Durrance George
1st Bn.Dorsetshire Regiment
14th September 1914.
Row A. 1.
Athelstan Key Durrance George
1st Bn.Dorsetshire Regiment
14th September 1914.
Row A. 1.
Lieutenant
Lorne Hunter McHarg
54th Squadron, Royal Air Force
31st July 1918, aged 20.
Row A. 12.
Son of Dr. R. J. McHarg, of Coaticook, P.Q., Canada.
Lorne Hunter McHarg
54th Squadron, Royal Air Force
31st July 1918, aged 20.
Row A. 12.
Son of Dr. R. J. McHarg, of Coaticook, P.Q., Canada.
Captain
Archibald Bertram Priestley
1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
12th September 1914, aged 32.
Row B. 14.
His headstone bears the inscription "Dear Husband of Bertha Priestley"
Archibald Bertram Priestley
1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
12th September 1914, aged 32.
Row B. 14.
His headstone bears the inscription "Dear Husband of Bertha Priestley"
