Quinquempoix Communal Cemetery
Oise, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

Quinquempoix is a small village 5 kilometres north of St. Juste-en-Chausée in the Department of the Oise. The communal cemetery lies on the Rue de l'Église on the southern side of the town. Against the rear wall are the graves of four WW2 airmen who died on the 23rd June 1944.
 

   

Flight Details:

Base: R.A.F. Breighton, North Yorkshire
Unit: 78 Sqdn. Bomber Command
Aircraft: Halifax Mk III, serial LK840
Target: Laon, Aisne, France
Incident: The aircraft crashed at Quinquempoix killing four of the crew. Sgts. A. Gill and W. C. Brown were taken prisoner. Sgt. S. W. Fox survived and escaped.

 

Burial Details:

 

Flying Officer Harold Arthur FUHR, Royal Canadian Air Force


Flying Officer David Lloyd IRWIN. Royal Canadian Air Force


Sgt. Thomas Robert OWEN. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 21. Son of Robert Frederick and Margaret Grace Owen; husband of Elizabeth Arme Owen of Inverness


Flying Officer Brinley SHEPSTONE. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, aged 21. Son of Thomas and Charlotte Shepstone of Tonypandy, Glamorgan

 

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