Sassenay Churchyard
Saône-et-Loire, France

Pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell and Dan Gilberti

    ^Dan Gilberti - Collection Gilles Moreau via Historia21

The village of Sassenay is situated 8 kilometres north-north-east of Chalon-sur-Saône in the Department of the Saône-et-Loire. The church is in the centre of the village. There are eight burials on four headstones. There is a rather modern monument at the crash site. All the airmen died on the 15th August 1943

 

                                                                                                                                               ^Dan Gilberti - Collection Gilles Moreau via Historia21

 

Flight Details:

 

R.A.F. Base: Oakington, Cambridgeshire

Unit: 7 Sqdn. Bomber Command

Aircraft: Lancaster Mk III, serial JA850

Target: Milan, Northern Italy

Incident: The aircraft crashed at Sassenay. There were no survivors

 

 

Burial Details:

 

Pilot Officer Alfred Alexander BALCOMBE. Royal Canadian Air Force, , attd. R.A.F.


Warrant Officer John Henry DUGAN, Royal Australian Air Force., aged 25. Son of George Alfred and Maude Dugan; husband of Heather Isabell Dugan of Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia


Flying Officer Kenneth Adrian GOUGH, Royal Australian Fleet Reserve, aged 28. Son of Harry and Madge Gough; husband of Moira Gough of Nottingham


Fl. Lt. Sidney George MATKIN, D.F.C. Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve. Aged 24. Son of George James and Annie May Matkin (née Whetnall); husband of Iris Grace Mellor Matkin of Teddington, Middx.


Flying Officer James Warren O'HARA, Royal Canadian Air Force, attd. R.A.F. Aged 21. Son of Seymour B. and Dorothy Warren O'Hara of Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Pilot Officer James Burgess PATERSON, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve.


Fl. Lt. Royston Charles Clifford TAYLOR, Royal New Zealand Air Force. Aged 28. Son of Arthur George and Ida Florence Taylor of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand


Sgt. Alexander WHATMORE, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve

J/17065 Flying Officer

James Warren O'Hara

7 (R.A.F.) Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force

15/08/1943, aged 21.

Son of Seymour B. O'Hara, and of Dorothy Warren O'Hara, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Coll. Grave.

 

These pictures courtesy of Barry Cuttell

 

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