Category Archives: Headstones

One final group of headstone inscriptions, for the moment, although I’ll show you some more later in the year.

Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. 

The second in our sometime series looking at the personal inscriptions inscribed on headstones in British military cemeteries, this post features forty four epitaphs, the majority on the theme of remembrance. 

There is one aspect of British military headstones that we have yet to consider, and that is the personal inscriptions sometimes to be found at their base.  The majority of headstones have no personal inscription, but a significant number do, … Continue reading →

We near the end of this series of posts with a look at some of the less common headstones, or groups of headstones, all marking the graves of identified men, that you might find on your travels among the British … Continue reading →

Continuing our look at the special memorials one might find in British military cemeteries on the Western Front, this is what is known as a Duhallow Block.

The ubiquitous CWGC headstone, with its standard information – regimental emblem, service number, rank, name, regiment, date of death and sometimes age, above a Latin cross with perhaps a short personal message at the base – is sadly so familiar … Continue reading →