IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

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

HESDIN Communal Cemetery (Pas de Calais France)

J. Foster

Photos Courtesy Jim Corkery (UK)

F/Sjt Ernest Cogman 16/08/1943 for his son Keith Cogman and family

P/O Norman Smyth 16/08/1943 aged 23 for his great nephew Andrew Henderson and his late brother Walter Smyth
Crew of the Boston MK.IIIA BZ289 RH-N
F/Sgt Ernest Cogman - P/O Allan Bishop Smith - P/O Norman Smyth - P/O Harry Leo Bradden

24 casualties

ALEXANDER FREDERICK JAMES
United Kingdom Private Labour Corps 742nd Area Employment Coy. Age: 38 Date of Death: 03/02/1918 Service No: 269514 (8)

BLACKBURN DAVID GORDON
United Kingdom Private Border Regiment 4th Bn. Date of Death: 11/07/1940 Service No: 3601096 (B.9.)

BRADDEN HARRY LEO
Canadian Pilot Officer (Air Gnr.) Royal Canadian Air Force 88 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Date of Death: 16/08/1943 Service No: J/18091 (B.2.)

BRADFIELD WILLIAM LESLIE
United Kingdom Corporal London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) "C" Coy. 1st/28th Bn. Age: 24 Date of Death: 20/06/1917 Service No: 760872 (2)

BREMNER R
United Kingdom Lance Corporal Military Police Corps Military Foot Police Date of Death: 21/03/1918 Service No: P/5317 (11)

CHARD E
United Kingdom Private Worcestershire Regiment 4th Bn. Date of Death: 30/12/1917 Service No: 9113 (7)

COGMAN ERNEST
United Kingdom Flight Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 88 Sqdn. Date of Death: 16/08/1943 Service No: 1175806 (B.5.)

FOSTER J
United Kingdom Bandsman 20th Hussars Date of Death: 12/10/1914 Service No: 8261

FRASER JOHN
United Kingdom Sapper Royal Engineers Secondary attd. H.Q. 51st Div. Age: 32 Date of Death: 02/07/1940 Service No: 2871805 (B.10.)

HEFFERMAN W
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps Date of Death: 25/10/1917 (3)

HUTLEY SIDNEY ARTHUR
United Kingdom Corporal Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) 6th Bn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 21/04/1917 Service No: 10974 (1)

LEDGARD JACK
United Kingdom Flying Officer (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 88 Sqdn. Age: 33 Date of Death: 16/08/1943 Service No: 138019 (B.1.)

LINDSAY W
United Kingdom Airman 3rd Class Royal Flying Corps 11th Sqdn. Date of Death: 20/02/1918 Service No: 127943 (9)

MAXWELL ROBERT
United Kingdom Private Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 4th Bn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 22/06/1940 Service No: 2932944 (B.11)

MERRINGTON WILLIAM JOHN MAYFIELD
United Kingdom Lance Corporal Honourable Artillery Company 1st Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 27/02/1918 Service No: 3454 (10)

PORTEUS GEORGE ARTHUR
United Kingdom Trooper Royal Armoured Corps 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry. Age: 22 Date of Death: 01/06/1940 Service No: 7893836 (B.12.)

REEVES FREDRICK CHARLES
United Kingdom Private Royal Army Medical Corps 14th Field Amb Age: 19 Date of Death: 02/12/1917 Service No: 515156 (6)

SMITH ALLAN BISHOP
New Zealand Flying Officer (Pilot) Royal New Zealand Air Force 88 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 16/08/1943 Service No: 412274 (B.3.)

SMYTH NORMAN
United Kingdom Pilot Officer (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 88 Sqdn. Age: 23 Date of Death: 16/08/1943 Service No: 155547 (B.4.)

STEPHENS THOMAS HENRY
United Kingdom Airman 1st Class Royal Flying Corps 25th Sqdn. Age: 35 Date of Death: 26/03/1918 Service No: 22360 (12)

VIZE DENIS IVAN
United Kingdom Flying Officer (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 182 Sqdn. Date of Death: 25/04/1943 Service No: 119152 (B.8)

WALKER M
United Kingdom Private Honourable Artillery Company 1st Bn. Age: 37 Date of Death: 27/11/1917 Service No: 5206 (5)

WHITEHEAD FRANK
United Kingdom Airman 2nd Class Royal Flying Corps 25th Sqdn. Age: 37 Date of Death: 26/03/1918 Service No: 135824 (12)

WINGROVE A
United Kingdom Corporal Army Service Corps Secondary attd. 1st (Secunderabad) Indian Cavalry Field Amb Date of Death: 10/11/1917 Service No: M1/08149 (4)

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

IF You want a king size copy of this picture (300/900 ko - 2592/1944 pixels) please e-mail me.

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

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