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Old 28-10-2007, 06:08 AM   #9 (permalink)
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This is where Sir Trafford, his wife and crew are buried.

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Another small cemetery where a RAAF officer is buried is the.............. Allemont (Le Rivier) Communal Cemetery in Isere, France. Sir Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory, his wife and crew of that ill-fated flight are buried here.

Flight Lieutenant Casey (RAAF) was attached to the Air Ministry Unit.

A more idyllic setting for a cemetery I could not imagine.

CWGC :: Cemetery Details
Franciscan Easter 2005
Story down the page on left by the nephew of Mallory.

NoNameRankServiceRegimentDate Of DeathAgeGrave/Memorial Ref.
1 LANCASTER, CHARLES GORDON DRAKE, C G D Squadron Leader ( Pilot 75989Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 32 Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 4.
2 LEIGH-MALLORY, Sir TRAFFORD LEIGH, T L Air Chief Marshal
Royal Air Force14/11/1944 52 Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 2.
1 BURGESS, JOHN ELLIS MORTON, J E M Corporal 523400Royal Air Force14/11/1944 Unknown Plot. Row 1. Grave 5.
2 BURNETT, JOHN CHALMERS, J C Leading Aircraftman 967906Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 Unknown Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 3.
3 CASEY, JOHN AUSTRAL, J A Flight Lieutenant 403555Royal Australian Air Force14/11/1944 29 Plot. Row 2. Grave 3.
4 CHANDLER, HAROLD JOHN, H J Sergeant 1618502Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 42 Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 6.
5 CHINN, PETER, P Flight Lieutenant 107984Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 20 Plot. Row 2. Grave
1 ENSER, ALFRED JOHN, A J Flying Officer ( Flt. Engr. 169052Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 29 Centre Plot. Row 2. Grave 2.
1 MOORING, KEITH ALAN, K A Flight Lieutenant ( Nav. 126892Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve14/11/1944 24 Centre Plot. Row 1. Grave 7.
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

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