Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
There are 704 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified. There are also six Czech and 19 Polish war graves.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
The entrance way to the cemetery.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
This is a WW2 cemetery and was designed by Philip Hepworth.
The British architect was born in 1890. He was appointed the Principal Architect for North West Europe by the Imperial War Graves Commission during the Second World War. His works are found in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany including Bayeux Memorial (1955) and Dunkirk Memorial (1957).
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Although this is a Canadian Cemetery, all CWGC cemeteries hold many nations dead, here there are British, Polish and Czechoslovakian soldiers & airmen. official numbers are 704 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 30 of them unidentified. There are also six Czech and 19 Polish war graves.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Captain
BASTOW, ALAN
Captain
BASTOW, ALAN
Service Number 145907
Died 16/10/1944
Aged 30
Royal Artillery
attached. (M.I.10)
Intelligence Corps (British).
Son of John Henry and Ruth Mary Bastow; husband of Beryl Bastow, of Hoole, Cheshire, England. M.A. (Leeds).
Military Intelligence, section 10, was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was responsible for weapons and technical analysis during World War II. MI 10 officers followed the army (or in some cases went before them) and gathered intelligence on the enemies weaponry. He died in October 1944 and may have been looking into all the heavy artillery around the Calais area.
MI 5 logo.
Canadian soldiers capturing the Lindemann Batterie.
A British Intelligence Officer looking at the Lindemann Batterie.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Pilot Officer (Air Bomber)
GREENE, PHILIP SANSON
Flying Officer (Navigator)
GAMSBY, AUSTIN GORDON
Pilot Officer (Air Bomber)
GREENE, PHILIP SANSON
Service Number J/87726
Died 16/06/1944
Aged 22
405 Sqn.
Royal Canadian Air Force.
Son of the Revd. Heber Hannington Kerr Greene and Jean Emily Esther Greene, of Albert Bay, British Columbia.
Flying Officer (Navigator)
GAMSBY, AUSTIN GORDON
Service Number J/23114
Died 16/06/1944
Aged 30
405 Sqn.
Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of Edgar and Jemima Gamsby, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
18 April 1943-26 May 1945 Gransdon Lodge was the home of 405Sqn. In April 1943 the squadron became part of the Pathfinder Force. I am presuming that they were Mosquito crew and died together. That is why the stones are so close together. 1 Mosquito was lost from the 15/16 June 1944Gelsenkirchen raid.
A German record of a night fighter units states, 16 June 1944 Robert Spreckels ASt./JG 11, 600m 11:24 KA-12 (S Hadsund/Denmark).
Jagdgeschwader 11 (JG 11) were flying Bf109G-14/14AS at the time.
405 (Vancouver) Sqn RCAF.
Mosquito.
RAF Gransdon Lodge Operations.
RAF Gransdon Lodge
A - Airfield Site.
B - Bomb Store.
C - Control Tower.
H - Hangars.
Emblem of JG.11.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Starszy Dragon
ZAKRZEWSKI
Starszy Dragon
ZAKRZEWSKI, A
Service Number 16
Died 05/09/1944
Aged 29
1.Pol.Dyw.Panc.
Polish Army. (1st Polish Armoured Division).
Dragon was the rank Dragoon. The Polish Armour passed through this area after the 3rd August 1944.
The 1 Polish Armoured Division,
A Sherman of the 1 Polish Armoured Division, In the Netherlands.
Members of the"B" Squadron, 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade, 1st Polish Armoured Division. This was possibly taken in England just prior to landing in Normandy.,
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Porucik
PUZEJ, ZDENEK
Porucik
PUZEJ, ZDENEK
Service Number F.1885
Died 01/12/1944
Aged 30
1 Obrnena Brigada
Czechoslovakian Army.
Porucik - Second lieutenant. Possibly died in the siege of Dunkirk.
1st Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group.
Cromwell's on the outskirts of Dunkirk.
1st Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group.
A Cromwell of the Czechoslovakian Army
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
This side is mostly Canadians.
A Canadian soldier in France 1944.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
The route of the Canadian, Polish (yellow) and Czech (red) troops followed.
Calais Canadian CWGC Cemetery, Leubringhen
The War Ends.
© 2013 Richard Drew