Cemetery:
DENNEVILLE CHURCHYARD, Manche, France.
Location:
The village and commune of Denneville is 38 kilometres south of Cherbourg
and about 3 kilometres from the west coast of the Cherbourg Peninsula. There
are 8 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-1945 war here, 12 metres north of the
northern transept of the church.
Please, follow the links below to read the circumstances of the death of the 8 soldiers buried in Denneville:
http://normandy1944.org.uk/denneville.htm
http://normandy1944.org.uk/last_battle_for_france.htm
http://normandy1944.org.uk/last_battle_pt_2.htm
In Memory of
Albert BROOKES
Lance Serjeant
807818
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 28
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Collective grave 1-5.
James COX
Bombardier
1037230
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Collective grave 1-5.
Benjamin JESSOP
Lance Serjeant
4742769
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 32
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Collective grave 1-5.
Ernest MILLER
Bombardier
894096
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 37
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Collective grave 1-5.
Percy Hoper WHITEHEAD
Gunner
835697
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 26
"IN
LOVING MEMORY.
WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
AS YEARS GO BY.
MOTHER, SISTERS & BROTHERS"
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Additional
Information:
Son of Hannah Nellie Tree Hoper Whitehead, of Dymchurch, Kent.
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Collective grave 1-5.
Edward EYRE
Gunner
903840
281 Battery, 71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 20
"IN
OUR HEARTS A MEMORY KEPT.
WE WHO LOVED HIM
NEVER FORGET
FATHER, MOTHER & FAMILY"
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Additional
Information:
Son of Isaac and Hilda Eyre, of Sheffield.
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Grave 6.
Stanley Ashby BENNETT
Serjeant
760631
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 33
"NOBLY HE FOUGHT
NOBLY HE DIED"
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas and Cora Bennett of Sheffield ; husband of Winifred Ada Bennett,
of Heeley, Sheffield.
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Grave 7.
Thomas PASHLEY
Serjeant
825262
71 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Age 32
"UBIQUE QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUNT"
Grave or Reference Panel Number: Grave 8.
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