WIZERNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.70703, Longitude: 2.22746
Location Information
Wizernes is a village and commune in the valley of the Aa, five kilometres south-west of St. Omer.
Historical Information
Wizernes Communal Cemetery contains three Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
10239 Private
James Jaffray Duncan
2nd Bn. Scots Guards
16th August 1915, aged 25.
James Jaffray Duncan
2nd Bn. Scots Guards
16th August 1915, aged 25.
Other Burials:
20770 Private A. G. Jenkins, 15th Bn. Welsh Regiment, who died 23rd November 1917.
Shot at Dawn:
73372 Private Richard M. Davies, 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), executed for desertion 15th November 1917. He enlisted in 1915 & served in France from November of that year. The battalion served at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917, & was heavily engaged at the end of September on the Menin Road. It is not known when Davies deserted, but he was already under a suspended sentence of death imposed for a similar offence. (Putkowski,p.217)
20770 Private A. G. Jenkins, 15th Bn. Welsh Regiment, who died 23rd November 1917.
Shot at Dawn:
73372 Private Richard M. Davies, 11th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), executed for desertion 15th November 1917. He enlisted in 1915 & served in France from November of that year. The battalion served at the Battle of Messines in the summer of 1917, & was heavily engaged at the end of September on the Menin Road. It is not known when Davies deserted, but he was already under a suspended sentence of death imposed for a similar offence. (Putkowski,p.217)
