Dommartin-Lettrée

Dommartin-Lettrée
Dommartin-Lettrée
Location within Champagne-Ardenne region  Dommartin-Lettrée
Administration
Country	France
Region	Champagne-Ardenne
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Vitry-le-François
Canton	Canton of Sompuis
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de l'Europort
Mayor	James Seurat (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	147 m (482 ft) avg.
Land area1	32.67 km2 (12.61 sq mi)
Population2	152  (2006)
- Density	5 /km2 (13 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	51212/ 51320
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°46′02″N 4°17′58″E / 48.7672222222°N 4.29944444444°E / 48.7672222222; 4.29944444444

Dommartin-Lettree is a village and commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France some 22 kilometres south of Chalons en Champagne and some 22 kilometres west of Vitry-le-Francois. The church is to be found in a central position in the village and the Commonwealth war graves of five airmen of the Royal Air Force and two of the Royal Canadian Air Force lie in the churchyard immediately behind the church.

The 7 serviceman were killed when their Lancaster bomber (Lancaster III serial JB741 code: AR-J) was shot down near the village by enemy fire on May 4th 1944 before completing their mission.

See also

• Communes of the Marne department
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission

External links

• Aircrew Remembrance Society