Location Details
Canadians buried in Choloy Cemetery:
Choloy Cemetery
Choloy is a village 28 kilometers west of Nancy and 5 kilometers west of Toul, a town on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy. The Cemetery is located 3 kilometers west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.
The Choloy War Cemetery is the last resting place of casualties from the First and Second World Wars and is managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. It is also the final resting place for many Royal Canadian Air Force members and their families who died while serving in Europe as part of 1 Air Division between 1953 and 1967 and other Service Members serving with NATO in Germany following Canada's departure from France.
Background Information on these sites has been extracted from: the Pinetree Line Web Site; the 2 (F) Wing RCAF Grostenquin, France Information Booklet (1957); publication 4 CMBG Canada's NATO Brigade, 1983, Moritz Schauenburg Gmbh & Co. KG.
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