Stanley Joseph Groucott (17-Jan-1923 to 29-Jan-1944).

Stanley was a sergeant 1581803 434 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve he died on Saturday, 29th January 1944. Age 21. he was the Son of Joseph and Clara Groucott, of Brocton, Staffordshire. He is Commemorated at BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY, Brandenburg, Germany Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Coll. grave 2. Z. 3-7.


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Location:

The Cemetery is in the district of Charlottenburg, 8 kilometres west of the city centre, on the south side of the Heerstrasse. From Theodor Heuss Platz in the district of Charlottenburg, near the exhibition hall complex and next to the Olympic Stadium, follow signs for Spandau, proceeding along the Heerstrasse. The Cemetery lies on the Heerstrasse on the left hand side of the road and 3 kilometres from Theodor Heuss Platz. Visitors should drive beyond the cemetery to the traffic lights, then turn left directly onto a small one way street running parallel to the Heerstrasse. The Cemetery entrance is on this small one way road.


Historical Information:

The site of Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery was selected by the British Occupation Authorities and Commission officials jointly in 1945, soon after hostilities ceased. To this War Cemetery were moved the graves from the Berlin area and from Eastern Germany. The great majority of those buried here, approximately 80 per cent of the total, were airmen who lost their lives in the air raids over Berlin and the towns in Eastern Germany. The remainder were men who died in prisoner-of-war camps in these regions, some of whom were victims of the notorious forced march into Germany of prisoners from camps in Poland,in front of the advancing Russians. It is said that during the battle for Berlin there was severe fighting between Russian and German forces in the cemetery area. Districts from which graves were transferred to this war cemetery include Leipzig, Konigsberg, Iena, Dresden, Halle, Rostock, Teltow, Wismar, Mittenwalde, Neuburzdorf, Magdeburg, Grunberg, Doberitz, Buchholz, Halberstadt, Blankenburg, Gotha, Tannenburg, Potsdam, Weder, Tessau, Stralsund, Schweren, Munsdorf, Brandenburg and Schonwalde. From the Olympischestrasse Cemetery in Berlin came 88 war graves. That cemetery contained a large number of burials which were not the responsibility of the Commission, and permanent maintenance of the war graves to the Commission's standards would have been impossible. There are in addition non-war graves; i.e. graves of men of the British Occupation Forces or their dependants, or of members of the Control Commission. Special memorials, commemorate men known to be buried in certain groups of graves in the cemetery, whose graves within these groups cannot be individually identified. They bear the superscription "Buried near this spot. "