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Graves and Memorials
Merville Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Grave of Private John Atherton, number 3713675, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940. Buried Merville Communal Cemetery
Extension, France. Born and lived at Preston, son of Thomas and Mary
Atherton of Blackburn.
Accession Number: KO3093/58
Grave of Private Charles William Bowden, number 44554115, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 28 May 1940. Buried Merville Communal Cemetery
Extension, France.
Accession Number: KO3093/59
Grave of Private Frank Bywater, number 2088918, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 21-30 May 1940, age 41. Buried Merville
Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Tom and Annie Bywater of
Huddersfield; husband of Jessie Bywater of Walthamstow, Essex.
Accession Number: KO3093/60
Grave of Private Arthur Cummings, number 4337706, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 36. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France.
Accession Number: KO3093/61
Grave of Private Francis Draper, number 3713489, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 23. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of William James and Agnes Draper of
West Derby of Liverpool.
Accession Number: KO3093/62
Grave of Corporal Stanley Maurice William Ellis, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 26 May 1940, age 24. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of William Arthur and Georgina Jessie
Ellis; husband of Winifred Ellis of Thornton Heath, Surrey.
Accession Number: KO3093/63
Grave of Lance corporal James Ingram, number 2876719, 6th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France.
Accession Number: KO3093/64
Grave of Private Michael Thomas James, number 6088848, 6th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 32. Buried Merville
Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Husband of Ella Phyllis James of
Poole.
Accession Number: KO3093/65
Grave of Private Michael J Kelly, number 2100319, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 25. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of John and Margarate Kelly, husband of
Eileen Kelly of Old Trafford, Manchester
Accession Number: KO3093/66
Grave of Private Thomas McKenna, number 3056197, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 24 May 1940, age 27. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Thomas and Jean McKenna, husband of
Mary Ann McKenna, of South Alloa, Stirlingshire.
Accession Number: KO3093/67
Grave of Private Oswald Albert Ivens Smith, number 1455279, 6th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 27. Buried
Merville Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Albert Ernest and
Harriet Louise Smith of Ardingley, Sussex.
Accession Number: KO3093/68
Grave of Private Edward Stevenson, number 2045698, 6th Battalion, King’s
Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 28. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Edward and Annie Stevenson; husband
of Frances Stevenson of Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Accession Number: KO3093/70
Grave of Private Cyril Vaines, number 4742858, 6th Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died 10 May 1940 – 5 Jan 1941, age 31. Buried Merville
Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Husband of Elizabeth Vaines of
Hoyland Yorkshire.
Accession Number: KO3093/71
Grave of Private Walker Waddington, number 2100588, 6th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 24. Buried Merville
Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Walker and Matilda
Waddington of Harden, Yorkshire.
Accession Number: KO3093/72
Grave of Private John Woodrow, number 4534395, 6th Battalion, King’s Own
Royal Regiment. Died 27 – 31 May 1940, age 31. Buried Merville Communal
Cemetery Extension, France. Son of Albert and E Emma Woodrow; husband of
Emma Woodrow of Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
Accession Number: KO3093/73
Grave of Private John Robert Wright, number 5880021, 6th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Regiment. Died 27 May 1940, age 32. Buried Merville
Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Accession Number: KO3093/74
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