dunkirktown

graves

IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

DUNKIRK Town Cemetery (Dunkerque) (Nord France)

Page 1 The Pictures

Page 2 List of Casualties

British plots in the civilian cemetery

Egyptian and Indian plots in the civilian cemetery

British plots near the Dunkirk Memorial (in background)


L/Sjt Alfred Frederick French 31/05/1940 aged 36

Apprentice Robert Walton Hodgkins 22/05/1916 aged 20
Acting Third Mate (Officer) on the H.M.T. “Lord Strathcona”, Mercantile Marine.
Robert was the eldest son of Ernest John and Ann Hodgkinsof 138, Bloxwich Road, Walsall.
He first went to sea in 1913 at 18 years of age serving aboard the “Lord Sefton”.
Her Captain then took command of His Majesty’s Transport “Lord Strathcona”, a 7,335 ton merchant vessel which had been taken over by the government for the duration, and requested that Robert join him. Robert did so as the Third Officer.
On Saturday 20/05/1916 the “Lord Strathcona” was in dock at Dunkirk when the German 1st and 3rd Air Squadrons made an air raid. The ship was hit by what has been described as ‘a poison bomb’.
The only casualty aboard the ship was Robert, who apparently died two days later.
for Graeme Clarke and the people of Walsall

1 030 casualties

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