WIZERNES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas De Calais
France
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.
Other Burials:
10239 Private J. Duncan, 2nd Bn. Scots Guards, who died 16th August 1915.
20770 Private A. G. Jenkins, 15th Bn. Welsh Regiment, who died 23rd November 1917.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
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.
Other Burials:
10239 Private J. Duncan, 2nd Bn. Scots Guards, who died 16th August 1915.
20770 Private A. G. Jenkins, 15th Bn. Welsh Regiment, who died 23rd November 1917.
Pictures © Johan Pauwels
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)
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)
