THIONVILLE (DIEDENHOFEN) FRENCH NATIONAL (MIXED) CEMETERY
Moselle
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.34834, Longitude: 6.1362
Image above © Johan Pauwels
Location Information
Thionville (Diedenhofen) French National (Mixed) Cemetery is on the west side of the town, adjoining the communal cemetery. The three Commonwealth war graves are in the south-west corner.
Historical Information
The cemetery was made by the Germans as an extension of the garrison cemetery.
Total Burials: 1,648.
Belgian Burials: 2.
French Burials: 161. (including one from Alsace-Lorraine and a civilian victim, Justin Bray, charged with revealing the position of a German sentry and killed by firing squad on 28 August 1914.
German Burials: 787, of which 86 are buried in an Ossuary.
Luxembourg Burials: 3 (three civilian victims killed on 16th July 1918.
Russian Burials: 692, including one civilian worker.
United Kingdom Burials: 3.
The Three U. K. and Two Belgian graves buried in the French National Cemetery
Images © Johan Pauwels
United Kingdom Burial Details
372422 Rifleman A. E. Heather, 8th Bn. London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), died 28th November 1918.
9668 Private Edward Maher, 2nd Bn. Connaught Rangers, died 10th December 1918, aged 27. Son of Patrick and Johanna Maher, of Church St., Templemore, Co. Tipperary.
9843 Private J. Stack, 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, died 15th December 1918.
