pornic war cemetery

PORNIC WAR CEMETERY
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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PORNIC WAR CEMETERY
HISTORY INFORMATION
Many of those buried here were washed ashore after the sinking by the enemy of the troopship "Lancastria" in the Bay of Biscay on 17th June 1940. There are now 2 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-1918 war and 395 of the 1939-1945 war commemorated here. Of the 1939-1945 war, 160 are unidentified. Special Memorials inscribed "Buried near this spot" record the names of soldiers and airmen whose graves in the cemetery were not precisely located. There are 3 non world war burials here, 2 of which are unidentified.
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  1. SOE Makowski, Stanislaw

    SURNAME Makowski FORENAME Stanislaw UNIT F Section SOE RANK Captain NUMBER 204697 DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 1944 AGE 30 GRAVESITE Pornic War Cemetery,France 2.AB.17 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION parent unit General List born 10.5.1914 Poland resided Poland son of Henryk and...

  2. SOE Byck, Muriel Tamara

    SURNAME Byck FORENAME Muriel Tamara UNIT F Section SOE RANK Section Officer NUMBER 9111 DATE OF DEATH 23rd May 1944 AGE 25 GRAVESITE Pornic War Cemetery,France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION parent unit Women's Auxiliary Air Force born 4.6.1918 Ealing,London daughter of Jacques...

  3. ARMY CDOS Hay, William

    SURNAME Hay FORENAME William UNIT 2 Commando RANK Lance Corporal NUMBER 325315 DATE OF DEATH 28th March 1942 AGE 21 GRAVESITE Pornic War Cemetery, France 1.G.10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION parent unit Royal Armoured Corps former Lanarkshire Yeomanry son of Thomas and Margaret...
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