259412 Pte, Charles Austin Slaney British Army 4th Btn. Dorset Regiment from:Cheadle, Staffordshire (d.3rd Aug 1944) Charles Slaney aged 24 was killed in action on the 3rd of August 1944, during the Normandy campaign. Initially buried at Le Bigne on the 3rd Aug 1944 Charles was reburied long with 20 comrades at Tilly Sur Seulles War Cemetery on the 8th Jan 1946. Tilly sur Seulles is not far from Caen.
The majority of burials here appear to be from the breakout battles and the dead were brought in from the battlefields in the vicinity for burial here in the Tilly-sur-Seulles cemetery. Buried alongside Charles Austin Slaney from the 4th Dorset's are:
- 4343763 Lance Corporal Gordon Francis Ball Aged 23
- 6143716 Lance Corporal Phillip Charles Coombs
- 14436851 Private William Robert Cooper Aged 18
- 3663782 Private George C Connor Aged 22
- 5735740 Lance Sergeant Charles Arthur James Dyke Aged 25
- 6016051 Corporal Wilfred Henry Everitt Aged 23
- 5334713 Private Gerald Ewers Aged 39
- 14702560 Private Clifford Gaskell Aged 18
- 14615848 Private Arthur Edward Hills Aged 19
- 4923487 Private George Harold Holland Aged 24
- 6014833 Private Douglas Haig Hunt Aged 25
- 14643160 Private Francis Jordan Aged 19
- 14702394 Private Gordon Alfred Joslin Aged 19
- 6144676 Private John Arthur Lee Aged 27
- 6143670 Private Ernest William Neal Aged 23
- 6023310 Corporal Charles John Newman Aged 29
- 5725664 Private George Joffre Owers Aged 29
- 14702344 Private Cecil Stanley Pentecost Aged 18
- 4078089 Private William Clifford Ralph Aged 22
- 6096589 Private Charles Albert Wickham Aged 28
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