The Cemeteries report contains the list of cemeteries, and other sites, where the the aircrew of No. 550 Squadron (Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal New Zealand Air Force) who gave their lives while the Squadron was on operations are laid. In the case of aircrew for whom there is no known resting place then Runnymede is referenced.
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| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Brussels Town Cemetery | - |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 5 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Heverlee War Cemetery is located 30 kilometres from Brussels and 3 kilometres south of Leuven. The cemetery now contains 977 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 37 of them unidentified. | http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/55000/HEVERLEE%20WAR%20CEMETERY |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 13 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Memorial to Graf Georges de Menten de Horne erected by the family | http://www.aviationheritage.eu/nl/content/graf-georges-menten-horne |
| Rank | Initials (First Name) |
Last Name | Decorations | Service | Service No. | Role | Flight | Grave/Panel | Web Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F/O | G M G (Georges Marie Ghislain) |
de Menten de Horne | RAF | FX117431 | Nav | DV345 |
/documents/public/Lancasters-Crews/FORHMaule/index.php http://www.bcar.org.uk/1944-incident-logs http://www.aviationheritage.eu/nl/content/graf-georges-menten-horne http://gw.geneanet.org/gounou?lang=en&p=georges&n=de+menten+de+horne http://www.bloggen.be/trudonensia/archief.php?ID=2237288 http://blogimages.bloggen.be/trudonensia/2237288-3b8caac8211522990d049288a765721a.jpg http://www.preventie-sint-truiden.be/ridders-de-menten-de-horneplein.aspx http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Menten_de_Horne http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_de_Menten_de_Horne http://www.aviationheritage.eu/nl/content/graf-georges-menten-horne |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 1 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Schoonselhof Cemetery | http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeteries/schoonselhofcemetery.htm |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 5 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| St Niklaas Communal Cemetery (Oost Vlaanderen Belgium) | http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/stniklaas.htm |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 7 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Uccle (Drieweg) Communal Cemetery | - |
| Rank | Initials (First Name) |
Last Name | Decorations | Service | Service No. | Role | Flight | Grave/Panel | Web Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sgt | C A (Charles) |
DeLaveleye | RAF | 1814844 | MU/AG | ME503 | Southern outskirts Brussels. Originally buried British Cemetery Heerstrasse, Berlin, repatriated to Belgium post-war |
/documents/public/Lancasters-Crews/FOCARhude/index.php /documents/public/Lancasters-Crews/POSWNielson/index.php /documents/public/Lancasters-Crews/FOCJJones/index.php |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 1 |
| Description | Web Links |
|---|---|
| Wevelgem Communal Cemetery is located 22 Kms east of Ieper town centre on the Meenseweg N8, connecting Ieper to Menen (Menin), Wevelgem and onto Kortrijk. Wevelgem Communal Cemetery contains the graves of 63 Commonwealth airmen of the Second World War. | http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/54884/WEVELGEM%20COMMUNAL%20CEMETERY |
| TOTAL: 550 Aircrew buried or commemorated at this location | 7 |
| TOTAL number of Cemeteries (as listed above) with 550 dead | 7 |
| TOTAL number of 550 Aircrew recorded at the above Cemeteries | 39 |
| Country | Total |
|---|---|
| Belgium | 7 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| France | 15 |
| Germany | 5 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| The Netherlands | 6 |
| UK | 33 |
| TOTAL | 69 |
| Country | Total |
|---|---|
| Belgium | 39 |
| Denmark | 1 |
| France | 86 |
| Germany | 116 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| The Netherlands | 36 |
| UK | 94 |
| TOTAL | 374 |
The details were last updated: 21 November 2024
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