ST. CHARLES DE PERCY WAR CEMETERY

Let's put a face to the men buried at the Saint-Charles de Percy War Cemetery.
St Charles de Percy War Cemetery is the southernmost of the Normandy cemeteries. The majority of those buried here died in late July and early August 1944 in the major thrust made from Caumont l'Evente towards Vire, to drive a wedge between the German 7th Army and Panzer Group West.
The cemetery contains 809 Second World War burials.

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GUARDSMAN GEORGE DANIEL KIBBLE
Service Number: 2719991
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 26 years old

Additional Info Husband of Gladys Joyce Kibble, of Harrow, Middlesex.
Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND GEORGE. HIS DEVOTED WIFE GLADYS

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Major PETER HUNTER GASKELL
Service Number: 92700
Regiment & Unit/Ship 3rd (8th Bn. The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Regt. Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.
Date of Death Died 15 August 1944
Age 29 years old

Additional Info Son of Surg. Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Gaskell, K.C.B., O.B.E., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., and of Lady Gaskell (nee Michell), of Fareham, Hampshire; husband of Daisy Denise Gaskell. B.A. (Cantab.) Barrister at Law.
Personal Inscription "PAR LA CROIX, VOUS NOUS DONNEZ LA VICTOIRE. AJOUTEZ-Y LA RECOMPENSE"

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GUARDSMAN WILLIAM BAYLISS
Service Number: 2664804
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 22 years old

Additional Info Son of William and Jeannette Bayliss; husband of Estelle Rose Bayliss (nee Tyler), of South Kilworth, Leicestershire.
Personal Inscription DUTY, HONOUR, COUNTRY HE DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE BE THOU AT PEACE, IN PROUD AND HONOURED MEMORY

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GUARDSMAN DAVID BLYTH
Service Number: 2657980
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 25 years old

Additional Info Son of John and Clara Blyth; husband of Mary Blyth, of Greenford, Middlesex.
Personal Inscription THE DAY THOU GAVEST LORD IS ENDED

Photo found on: MOD War Detectives

 

LIEUTENANT RICHARD DONALD STEVENS
Service Number: 267581
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Welsh Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 22 years old

Son of John Edward Pawson Stevens and Agnes Stevens, of Roe-Wen, Caernarvonshire.
Personal Inscription RICHARD DONALD (DON) DEAR SON OF J. E. P. AND A. STEVENS OF DEGANWY, N. WALES

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GUARDSMAN DONALD REES
Service Number: 2735589
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Welsh Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 27 years old

Additional Info Son of David Archibald and Elizabeth Rees, of Neath, Glamorgan.
Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

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From my father's training squad photo:
2723906 Guardsman Eric William PRICE, 3 Irish Guards: 11/08/1944
Grave Reference: V. E. 7.



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Having visited this cemetery. From what I believe St Charles Cemetery is the cemetery used by the CWGC for late burials of post war found casualties.

 

As per recent good news for a forum member
2657980 Guardsman David BLYTH, 1 Coldstream Guards, 2IG reinforcement: 04/08/1944

 

LIEUTENANT WILLARD CASELEY
Service Number: CDN/611
Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
Date of Death Died 06 August 1944
Age 35 years old

Additional Info Son of Lyman W. and Mary J. Caseley, of Howlan, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

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LANCE CORPORAL ROBERT WHITTAKER
Service Number: 2720865
Regiment & Unit/Ship 3rd Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 09 August 1944
Age 25 years old

Additional Info Son of Robert and Alice Whittaker, of Higher Irlam, Lancashire.

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LANCE SERJEANT JAMES CROWTHER FINNEY
Service Number: 2617905
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Grenadier Guards
Date of Death Died 11 August 1944
Age 27 years old

Additional Info Son of John William and Gertrude Finney; husband of Rhoda Finney, of Stoneclough, Lancashire.
Personal Inscription NOT GONE FROM MEMORY NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO HIS FATHER'S HOUSE ABOVE

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CORPORAL WILLIAM JOHN MARRINER
Service Number: 6151085
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Suffolk Regiment
Date of Death Died 13 August 1944
Age 21 years old

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SAPPER JOSEPH HENRY BLATCHFORD
Service Number: 2072224
Regiment & Unit/Ship 14 Field Sqn. Royal Engineers
Date of Death Died 21 August 1944
Age 26 years old

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FUSILIER RAYMOND RALPH CHALLICE
Service Number: 14649949
Regiment & Unit/Ship 6th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Date of Death Died 08 August 1944
Age 19 years old

Additional Info Son of Arthur and Annie Challice, of Newmarket, Suffolk.
Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE REMEMBER YOU

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LANCE SERJEANT ROBERT WOOD
Service Number: 2719530
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 24 years old

Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Wood; husband of Nellie Frances Kathleen Wood, of Norwich.
Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE

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LIEUTENANT JOHN CHARLES FITZGERALD KEATINGE
Service Number: 278673
Regiment & Unit/Ship 2nd Armd. Bn. Irish Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 20 years old

Additional Info Son of Gerald FitzMaurice Keatinge and Margaret Evelyn Keatinge, of Codnor, Derbyshire. Scholar-elect, King's College, Cambridge.

Photo found on: Winchester College
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LIEUTENANT DAVID VIVIAN MARTYN
Service Number: 278662
Regiment & Unit/Ship 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards
Date of Death Died 04 August 1944
Age 20 years old

Additional Info Son of Maj. Rendel Vivian Martyn, Coldstream Guards, and Florence Nancye Martyn, of Kensington, London. Awarded Belt of Honour, Sandhurst, 1943.

Photo found on: Winchester College
Photo given to Musée de la Percée du Bocage by André Cannat

 

FLYING OFFICER JOHN ALEXANDER INGLIS
Service Number: 126627
Regiment & Unit/Ship 193 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death Died 12 June 1944
Age 23 years old

Additional Info Son of James Alexander Inglis and Margaret Russell Inglis, of Cardonald, Glasgow.
Personal Inscription THE WINGS WERE SPREAD. HE SHONE, A GOLD SPECK IN THE GOLD SKIES; THEN WAS GONE

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