SARRALBE MILITARY CEMETERY
Moselle
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.99504, Longitude: 7.01339
Image used with the permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Location Information
Sarralbe is a town in the Department of the Moselle, close to the German border. The CWGC cemetery is in front of the civil cemetery which is located to the south-west of the town of Sarralbe.
Sarralbe Military Cemetery is best reached from the main road Richeling-Sarralbe N.56. The cemetery lies on the right hand side of the D.156 which is reached by taking a right turn off the N.56 before entering the town of Sarralbe.
Historical Information
Sarralbe Military Cemetery was begun by the Germans but now contains only the graves of Commonwealth soldiers who died as prisoners of war.
The cemetery contains 94 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, three of which are unidentified. Sixty-three of the graves were brought from Haboudange Communal Cemetery German Extension, Morhange, Plaine-de-Walsch, Sarrebourg, Sarreguemines and Saverne (Zabern) Military Cemeteries and Czersk and Furstenfeldbruck Prisoners of War Cemeteries. There are special memorials 11 casualties buried at Morhange and Sarrebourg whose graves could not be found.
Total Burials: 107.
Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 103, Canada 1. Total 4.
Unidentified Casualties: 3.
Lieutenant
James Bennet McIntyre
55th Squadron, Royal Air Force
16th August 1918, aged 24.
Row C. 11.
Son of William and Sarah McIntyre, of 11, Mayfield Rd., Edinburgh.
James Bennet McIntyre
55th Squadron, Royal Air Force
16th August 1918, aged 24.
Row C. 11.
Son of William and Sarah McIntyre, of 11, Mayfield Rd., Edinburgh.
Lieutenant
Harry Taylor Melville
99th Squadron, Royal Air Force
31st July 1918, aged 27.
Row B. 19.
Son of Harry T. and Jemima Melville, of Craigrothie, Ceres, Fife.
Harry Taylor Melville
99th Squadron, Royal Air Force
31st July 1918, aged 27.
Row B. 19.
Son of Harry T. and Jemima Melville, of Craigrothie, Ceres, Fife.
43082 Lance Corporal
Alexander Pennycook
12th Bn. Royal Scots
16th October 1918, aged 21.
Row C. 2
Son of Alexander and Elizabeth Pennycook.
His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Fondly Remembered"
Alexander Pennycook
12th Bn. Royal Scots
16th October 1918, aged 21.
Row C. 2
Son of Alexander and Elizabeth Pennycook.
His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Fondly Remembered"
