ST. GERMAIN-EN-LAYE OLD COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Yvelines
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 48.90036, Longitude: 2.08376
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
St Germain-en-Laye is 17 kilometres west of Paris. The Old Communal Cemetery is located to the North-West of the town.
Within the Old Communal Cemetery will be found the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914 and 1918.
St Germain-en-Laye is 17 kilometres west of Paris. The Old Communal Cemetery is located to the North-West of the town.
Within the Old Communal Cemetery will be found the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom who died in 1914 and 1918.
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
Major
Francis Bennett Goldney
Hon. Assist. British Military Attache, Paris, Special List and Staff
26th July 1918, aged 51.
Member of Parliament and Mayor for the City of Canterbury. Son of Dr Sebastian Evans.
He was born Francis Evans, the son of Sebastian Evans in Moseley, near Birmingham. He later assumed his mother's family name of Bennett-Goldney.
He was elected as the Independent Unionist Member of Parliament for Canterbury at the general election of December 1910; he had stood at the January 1910 general election, narrowly failing to defeat the Conservative MP. In the years leading up to the war, he frequently spoke of the threat posed by Germany, and never wavered from his opinions despite criticism. He was also very active in the service of aiding refugees in the early days of the war. His family home, Abbot's Barton in Canterbury, was used as a VAD hospital.
He joined the British Embassy in Paris in October 1917 as honorary assistant military attaché. He was promoted as a temporary major on the General List on 13 May 1918. He died 26 July 1918 in an American hospital in Brest from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was buried at St Germain-en-Laye, near Paris.
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Francis Bennett Goldney
Hon. Assist. British Military Attache, Paris, Special List and Staff
26th July 1918, aged 51.
Member of Parliament and Mayor for the City of Canterbury. Son of Dr Sebastian Evans.
He was born Francis Evans, the son of Sebastian Evans in Moseley, near Birmingham. He later assumed his mother's family name of Bennett-Goldney.
He was elected as the Independent Unionist Member of Parliament for Canterbury at the general election of December 1910; he had stood at the January 1910 general election, narrowly failing to defeat the Conservative MP. In the years leading up to the war, he frequently spoke of the threat posed by Germany, and never wavered from his opinions despite criticism. He was also very active in the service of aiding refugees in the early days of the war. His family home, Abbot's Barton in Canterbury, was used as a VAD hospital.
He joined the British Embassy in Paris in October 1917 as honorary assistant military attaché. He was promoted as a temporary major on the General List on 13 May 1918. He died 26 July 1918 in an American hospital in Brest from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was buried at St Germain-en-Laye, near Paris.
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Lieutenant
Henry Stanley Lowe
2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
21st October 1914, aged 24.
Only son of Mrs. Lowe, of 35, Wetherby Mansions, Earl's Court Square, London, and youngest son of the late Rev. E. J. Lowe, of Stallingborough Vicarage, Lincolnshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "Son Of The Rev. E. J. Lowe & Mrs. Lowe Stallingborough, Lincolnshire"
Henry Stanley Lowe
2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
21st October 1914, aged 24.
Only son of Mrs. Lowe, of 35, Wetherby Mansions, Earl's Court Square, London, and youngest son of the late Rev. E. J. Lowe, of Stallingborough Vicarage, Lincolnshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "Son Of The Rev. E. J. Lowe & Mrs. Lowe Stallingborough, Lincolnshire"
