QUEND COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme
France
Location Information
Quend is a village and commune 50 kilometres south of Boulogne-sur-Mer on the coast road from that resort to Etaples and Rue.
The communal cemetery is some 270 metres north-east of the church, on the west side of the road leading to the main Abbeville-Boulogne road (N.40). One of the Commonwealth burials is in the French military plot west of the entrance, the other is at the east end near the entrance.
Historical Information
Quend Communal Cemetery contains one Commonwealth burial of the First World War and one from the Second World War.
World War One Burial
403395 Air Mechanic 2nd Class A. E. Watkinson, No.2 Aircraft Depot, Royal Air Force, died 17th May 1918, aged 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Watkinson, of 19, Fearon St., East Greenwich, London.
World War Two Burial
J/90077 Pilot Officer Jack Junior Ringer, Air Gunner in 427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 9th August 1944, aged 20. Son of John Francis and Marjorie L. Ringer, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Pictures below © Werner Van Caneghem
Quend is a village and commune 50 kilometres south of Boulogne-sur-Mer on the coast road from that resort to Etaples and Rue.
The communal cemetery is some 270 metres north-east of the church, on the west side of the road leading to the main Abbeville-Boulogne road (N.40). One of the Commonwealth burials is in the French military plot west of the entrance, the other is at the east end near the entrance.
Historical Information
Quend Communal Cemetery contains one Commonwealth burial of the First World War and one from the Second World War.
World War One Burial
403395 Air Mechanic 2nd Class A. E. Watkinson, No.2 Aircraft Depot, Royal Air Force, died 17th May 1918, aged 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Watkinson, of 19, Fearon St., East Greenwich, London.
World War Two Burial
J/90077 Pilot Officer Jack Junior Ringer, Air Gunner in 427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 9th August 1944, aged 20. Son of John Francis and Marjorie L. Ringer, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Pictures below © Werner Van Caneghem
Pictures below © Johan Pauwels
