TOURGÉVILLE MILITARY CEMETERY
Calvados
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 49.33991, Longitude: 0.06901
Location Information
Tourgéville is a commune adjoining the town of Deauville, which is located on the coast at the mout of the River Touques, just south of Le Havre.
The Military Cemetery is situated north of the village of Tourgéville, in the region of Mont Canisy in a small side road.
Visiting Information
The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible.
Historical Information
The 14th Convalescent Depot was at Trouville in October 1917 and the Trouville Hospital Area - which later comprised the 72nd, 73rd and 74th General Hospitals, and the 13th, 14th and 15th Convalescent Depots - was established in February 1918.
Tourgéville Military Cemetery contains 210 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 13 from the Second World War. There are also 90 German graves and two non war burials.
Total Burials: 315.
World War One Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 194, Australia 8, Canada 7, New Zealand 1. Total 210
World War Two Commonwealth Unidentified Casualties: 5.
World War Two Commonwealth Identified Casualties: United Kingdom 6, Canada 2. Total 8.
Other Nationalities: Germany 90.
Non War Burials: 2.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and John Reginald Truelove
Cemetery images in gallery below © Werner Van Caneghem
Image above © Thierry Grier
American, French and British sailors with civilians and a performing dog at a convalescent depot at Trouville, 17 August 1918. (IWM Q 11190)
Images in gallery below © Thierry Grier
Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels
World War Two Burials
D/15575 Sapper
Lionel Gamelin
Royal Canadian Engineers
15th September 1944.
Plot 7. G. 1.
Lionel Gamelin
Royal Canadian Engineers
15th September 1944.
Plot 7. G. 1.
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7012844 Corporal
Ernest Southam
1st (Airborne) Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles
23rd August 1944, aged 24.
Plot 7. G. 5.
Son of Richard and May Southam; husband of Amelia Elizabeth Southam, of Brithdir, New Tredegar, Momnouthshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "Until We Meet Again"
Ernest Southam
1st (Airborne) Bn. Royal Ulster Rifles
23rd August 1944, aged 24.
Plot 7. G. 5.
Son of Richard and May Southam; husband of Amelia Elizabeth Southam, of Brithdir, New Tredegar, Momnouthshire.
His headstone bears the inscription "Until We Meet Again"
