Quiberon Communal Cemetery, Morbihan, France

Below are photographs of all the headstones contained within the Communal Cemetery in Quiberon, Morbihan, France.

I hope that some of our well informed RAF & RAAF experts will expand it to include the information pertaining to why these brave men are here.
Extra to the above there are included in the 6 photographs one Unknown RAAF airman, who died 17th Aug 1942 - he may have been part of the same crew as Hobgen but died later of wounds, I do not know at this point, and also a member of 305 Polish Squadron, whose details obviously do not appear on the CWGC site, but perhaps others have more details.




NOBLE, JOHN REGINALD

Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Trade:
Pilot
Service No:
40843
Date of Death:
02/12/1941
Age:
23
Regiment/Service:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

22 Sqdn.
Grave Reference
Grave 1.
Cemetery
QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of James Morton Noble and Margarita May Osith Noble; husband of Yvonne Margaret Somerville Noble, of Oxford.


DEARDEN, ARTHUR JOHN

Rank:
Pilot Officer
Trade:
Obs.
Service No:
63433
Date of Death:
02/12/1941
Age:
24
Regiment/Service:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

22 Sqdn.
Grave Reference
Grave 2.
Cemetery
QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of James William and Ellen Gertrude Dearden; husband of Angela Dearden, of Maidenhead, Berkshire.


FURZEY, WILLIAM ROBERT

Rank:
Sergeant
Trade:
W.Op./Air Gnr.
Service No:
993605
Date of Death:
02/12/1941
Age:
21
Regiment/Service:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

22 Sqdn.
Grave Reference
Grave 3.
Cemetery
QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of William and Annie Elizabeth Furzey, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.




HOBGEN, THOMAS CUNNAH

Rank:
Sergeant
Service No:
404313
Date of Death:
04/08/1942
Age:
21
Regiment/Service:
Royal Australian Air Force
Grave Reference
Grave 4.
Cemetery
QUIBERON COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Thornas and Daisy Adelaide Hobgen, of Toowong, Queensland, Australia.


Unknown RAAF aircrew died 17 Aug 1942


Ostrowski - 305 Polish Squadron - died 23 Sep 1942

 

Hi TD,

Thank you for the photos - Great job.

The Australian, Hobgen's younger brother John was also killed in the RAAF

The link below has more information from the RAF perspective, so no need to post both.

http://www.aircrewremembered.com/grand-albert.html


Cheers

Geoff

 

The crew lost on 2 December 1941 was from the Coastal Command,No 22 Squadron.At the time the squadron was operating out of St Eval,Cornwall, equipped with the Beaufort Mark 1.Interestingly the squadron operated this aircraft for nearly 5 years from November 1939.

Sgt A Ostrowski was a gunner of a PAF Wellington, Mark 1V Z1476 SM-F, operating out of Hemswell.The task was to lay mines off the U Boat base at L'Orient.Aircraft was said to have been lost without trace.According to W Chorley's reference,all the crew are remembered on the PAF Northolt Memorial.

One feature of PAF casualties is that their squadron is usually indicated on their tombstone unlike other Allied air forces.