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GANDELU COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Aisne

​France


Location Information

Gandelu is a commune in the department of Aisne, 60 kilometres south-west of Soissons and 20 kilometres west-north-west of Chateau-Thierry on the D9. 

The cemetery is situated on the first road on the left after the church in the direction of Prement. The two war graves plots are at the rear right hand corner of the cemetery.

Historical Information

Gandelu Communal Cemetery contains five Commonwealth burials of the First World War.


Burial Details


5558 Corporal Thomas Adam, 2nd (Royal Scots Greys) Dragoon Guards, died 10th September 1914, aged 28. Son of George and Helen Philip Adam of Edinburgh.

1552 Private David Ferguson Esplin, 2nd (Royal Scots Greys) Dragoon Guards, died 10th September 1914, aged 24. Son of William Young and Elizabeth Esplin of Forfar.

4743 Private John Donaldson Scott, 2nd (Royal Scots Greys) Dragoon Guards. 10th September 1914, aged 23. Son of Isabella Scott, 98 Newhaven Road, Leith, Edinburgh and the late John Scott. Native of Eddleston, Peeblesshire.

Second Lieutenant James Herbert Seabrook, Intelligence Corps and Royal Engineers, died 10th September 1914, aged 29. Son of William and Elizabeth Seabrook of Boreham, Essex.


Lieutenant James Hubert Sword, 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars. 10th September 1914, aged 22. Son of Frederick Steuart and Catherine Brash Sword of "Teneriffe" Carlisle Road, Eastbourne.


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