allemont

graves

IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit to Commonwealth graves in Communal Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

ALLEMONT (Le rivier) Communal Cemetery (Isere France)

Front, L. to R.: Mrs Doris Jean Leigh-Mallory - Sit T. L. Leigh-Mallory - J. C. Burnett - C. G. D. Lancaster - J. E. M. Burgess - H. J. Chandler - K. A. Mooring
Back, L. toR.: P. Chinn - A. J. Enser - J. A. Casey

Here are the graves of Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory, his wife, his closest staff and crew of Avro Lancaster 685 York that took him to India where he would take his next command. The plane had to follow a route from England and through Cherbourg, Toulouse, Corsica and Napoli. He turned away 45 miles to the east with unknown explanation and was caught in a storm of snow and ice and crashed into the tops of massive Belledonne (Isère). The villagers of Allemont Rivier, cloistered at home by the freak weather, heard the sound of aircraft engines, then a loud explosion and thought that all aircraft had slammed into the mountain opposite where the research was companies, in vain. Anyway, the wreckage and the bodies were quickly covered with snow. The discovery was in June 1945, six months later.
Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory (Air Chief Marshall) had the same level of command that Sir Bernard Shaw Montgomery (Ground Forces) or Sir Bertram Ramsey (Navy).

Photo Courtesy Alain Octavie (Fr)
http://liberty-jeep.info/


Sqn/Ldr Charles Lancaster DFC & Bar	Sgt Harold Chandler	F/Lt Keith Mooring

Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory KCB CB DSO		F/Lt Peter Chinn

9 casualties

BURGESS JOHN ELLIS MORTON
United Kingdom Corporal Royal Air Force Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 523400 A.5.

BURNETT JOHN CHALMERS
United Kingdom Leading Aircraftman Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 967906 A.3.

CASEY JOHN AUSTRAL
Australian Flight Lieutenant Royal Australian Air Force Age: 29 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 403555 B.3.

CHANDLER HAROLD JOHN
United Kingdom Sergeant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age: 42 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 1618502 A.6.

CHINN PETER
United Kingdom Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age: 20 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 107984 B.1.

ENSER ALFRED JOHN
United Kingdom Flying Officer (Flt. Engr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age: 29 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 169052 B.2.

LANCASTER CHARLES GORDON DRAKE
United Kingdom Squadron Leader (Pilot) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age: 32 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 75989 A.4.

LEIGH-MALLORY Sir TRAFFORD LEIGH
United Kingdom Air Chief Marshal Royal Air Force Allied Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Sec. formerly Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fighter Command Age: 52 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 A.2.

MOORING KEITH ALAN
United Kingdom Flight Lieutenant (Nav.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Age: 24 Date of Death: 14/11/1944 Service No: 126892 A.7.

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations