Every second weekend in August – more specifically on the Friday afternoon of aforementioned weekend – you will find me with beer in hand in the churchyard of St. Mary’s Church in Cropredy in Oxfordshire. Not alone, I hasten to add, and if you are curious, doubtless Google will reveal all. Or ask me. What I have never previously done, however, is spend a few minutes at Cropredy War Memorial. Time to put that right.
Returning in 2014, I noticed the grave below, that somehow I managed to miss last year: