Category Archives: Headstones

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 →

A short post featuring a selection of headstones marking the graves of unidentified men of nations other than Britain and its Empire, the first few of which are to be found in CWGC cemeteries, the remainder in cemeteries of their … Continue reading →

On this particular Remembrance Day, my thoughts are going to be with those men and women who survived the war but not the peace.  Many British service personnel would die in the days, months & years following the cessation of … Continue reading →

On this Remembrance Sunday, I invite you to spend a few minutes with the men on the other side.  In the years immediately following the Great War, many of the foreign burials in British military cemeteries, and there were thousands, … Continue reading →

Row upon row of unidentified Australian soldiers, seemingly still on parade after all these years.

For anyone who might find it of interest, which is all of you, on Wednesday 11th November a friend of mine is leading an online virtual tour of the war memorials around the Whitehall area of London.  It should be … Continue reading →