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Rhone American Cemetery
Draguignan, France

GPS: 43.536701, 6.473467

553 Blvd John F. Kennedy
83300 Draguignan, France

Published: November 29, 2019
Total records: 1,155

Rhone American Cemetery was built and is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Rhone American Cemetery is in the city of Draguignan, France, located 40 miles west of Cannes and 16 miles inland from Frejus.

Unidentified Remains

The following records were acquired from the American Battle Monuments Commission on Novemeber 29, 2019. Dates of death range from 27-Oct-1942 to 10-Aug-1946. Some 294 of these records are those of soldiers whose bodies were missing, and not recovered. They are denoted in these records with the words, "Tablets of the Missing", referring to a special section of the cemetery where they have been remembered.

??, ??, Plot A, Row 5, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot A, Row 6, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot A, Row 7, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot A, Row 8, Grave 7, World War II
??, ??, Plot A, Row 8, Grave 11, World War II
??, ??, Plot A, Row 11, Grave 6, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 1, Grave 10, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 3, Grave 15, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 3, Grave 25, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 4, Grave 15, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 6, Grave 11, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 7, Grave 13, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 7, Grave 24, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 8, Grave 10, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 8, Grave 15, World War II
??, ??, Plot B, Row 9, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 1, Grave 14, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 1, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 2, Grave 15, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 2, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 2, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 3, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 4, Grave 12, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 4, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 4, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 5, Grave 14, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 5, Grave 25, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 6, Grave 13, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 6, Grave 25, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 7, Grave 7, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 7, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 8, Grave 5, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 8, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 10, Grave 2, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 10, Grave 16, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 10, Grave 17, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 5, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 6, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 7, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 8, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 9, World War II
??, ??, Plot C, Row 11, Grave 10, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 3, Grave 26, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 3, Grave 27, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 3, Grave 29, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 4, Grave 26, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 4, Grave 27, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 4, Grave 28, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 4, Grave 29, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 5, Grave 26, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 5, Grave 27, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 5, Grave 28, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 6, Grave 25, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 6, Grave 26, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 7, Grave 23, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 7, Grave 24, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 8, Grave 11, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 8, Grave 21, World War II
??, ??, Plot D, Row 8, Grave 22, World War II
??, Disinterred, Plot A, Row 8, Grave 20, World War II, With the hope of identifying an American MIA, X-6852 (Neuville) was disinterred in June 2017 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and is no longer buried in Rhone American Cemetery. In 2018, DPAA accounted for the remains of Sgt. Joseph Akers and Sgt. Melvin C. Anderson, both of Company C, 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion which was participating in intense fighting in the Hürtgen Forest. Their company was deployed as direct fire support for American infantrymen attacking the town of Grosshau. Two tank destroyers and six tanks, including the M10 tank destroyer they were on, were knocked out in the fighting around Grosshau on Nov. 25, 1944. He was killed during the battle, though his status was initially listed as missing in action. On Dec. 21, 1944, their status was amended to killed in action. Both men are recorded on the Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with the other MIAs from WWII. Although interred as an "unknown" their grave was meticulously cared for over the past 70 years by ABMC. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.
??, Disinterred, Plot C, Row 8, Grave 17, World War II, With the hope of identifying an American MIA, X-90 (Margraten) was disinterred by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and is no longer buried in Rhone American Cemetery.
??, Disinterred, Plot C, Row 12, Grave 5, World War II, In July 2010, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of an Unknown Soldier buried in Plot C Row 12 Grave 5 at Rhone American Cemetery with the belief that an identification could be made. DNA analysis and historical evidence were used to positively identify the remains as belonging to Pfc. Robert B. Bayne, who served with the 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, and lost his life on March 28, 1945. His name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Lorraine American Cemetery.