bancourt

graves

IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BANCOURT Communal Cemetery (Pas de Calais France)

G. Hedderwick - E. C. Lansdale - A. Clarkson

A. J. Cameron - B. J. Russell

R. S. Evans

Unknown (Airman)

A. J. Fisher


	A stained glass window was dedicated to Lieutenant Ernest Conway Lansdale by his loving parents in The Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, Goole, Yorkshire, England, where he was born. Very unusually,a photograph of Ernest Lansdale's face was allowed to be used in the window and he is portrayed wearing his RFC uniform, with the RFC insignia and aeroplane above his head and an angel flying over the battlefield with 5 symbolic white crosses.
Lt Ernest Conway Lansdale 30/09/1916 aged 21 For his surviving nieces Mrs Elizabeth Thonger (nee Lansdale) and Mrs Marigold Abrahamson (nee Lansdale) and all other great nephews, great nieces and their children.

7 casualties

CAMERON ALLAN JOHN
Australian Driver Australian Pioneers 4th Age: 27 Date of Death: 15/04/1917 Service No: 1392

CLARKSON ALBERT
United Kingdom Serjeant Royal Flying Corps 11th Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 30/09/1916 Service No: 3049

EVANS R S
United Kingdom Serjeant Royal Flying Corps 70th Sqdn. Age: 18 Date of Death: 16/11/1916 Service No: 25178

FISHER ARTHUR JAMES
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 21st Sqdn. 14th Wing Age: 21 Date of Death: 25/10/1916

HEDDERWICK GUY
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 19th Sqdn. Secondary Reserve Cavalry Regiment Date of Death: 22/09/1916

LANSDALE ERNEST CONWAY
United Kingdom Lieutenant (Pilot) Royal Flying Corps 11th Sqdn. Secondary Army Service Corps Age: 21 Date of Death: 30/09/1916

RUSSELL BERTRAM JOHN
New Zealand Second Lieutenant New Zealand Field Artillery 3rd Bty. 1st Bde. Age: 32 Date of Death: 02/09/1918 Service No: 2/683

IF You have a casualty picture, please send me a copy, I'll be glad to show it on this page.

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations