With the British Army in Flanders

Woking – Mayford Industrial School Rolls of Honour

Magicfingers — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:49:19 +0000

This building was once Mayford Industrial School…

…and at the far end of this block…

…there is a room…

…at the time of my visit full of objects due to go to auction.

This is the same room some years earlier (trust me, it really is, lack of windows notwithstanding). If you look closely on either side of the screen in the centre background you will just make out two boards that could perhaps be Rolls of Honour…

…and indeed they are. In a store room in a Woking multi-storey, and with a little help from Freddie Flintoff and that bloke on the right (whom you may recognise from elsewhere on this site), we tracked both of them down. Good work, eh?

Guildford War Memorial

Magicfingers — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:01:53 +0000

I shall return on another occasion to photograph the panels on the memorial.

Walton-on-Thames War Memorial

Magicfingers — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:55:46 +0000

Armistice Day 2008:

Armistice Day 2009:

January 2011:

Walton-on-Thames Churchyard & Cemetery Part Four – August 2011

Magicfingers — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:52:19 +0000

This final group of photos were taken in August 2011, just days before I moved away.

We begin in St. Mary’s churchyard:

Before taking a stroll through the adjoining Walton Cemetery:

You may have noticed quite a number of photos of 2nd Lieutenant Sedgley’s headstone in these posts. I sort of ‘adopted’ him during my time in Walton. It seemed the right thing to do.

Walton-on-Thames Churchyard & Cemetery Part Three – May – July 2011

Magicfingers — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:04:09 +0000

May 2011:

June 2011:

Various dates in July 2011:

More July 2011:

And more July:

And just a few more:

Walton-on-Thames Churchyard & Cemetery Part Two – Winter 2010

Magicfingers — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:23:34 +0000

December 2010:

And the following day:

Walton-on-Thames Churchyard & Cemetery Part One 2007 – 2009

Magicfingers — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:05:30 +0000

I used to live in a house that backed on to the churchyard here. I don’t particularly miss the house, nice though it was, but I do miss the churchyard.

October 2007:

Above and photos below: There are three CWGC burials in the churchyard, all of which are casualties of the Second World War.

The adjoining cemetery has 33 CWGC burials, this time all but three being First World War casualties:

Above & below: 22 New Zealanders buried in nearby plots in the cemetery are remembered on two screen walls near the north west entrance.

Just imagine that the next three photos, taken on a blustery autumn day late in 2008, are in pictorial parentheses.

August 2008:

According to the CWGC, both Private McDiarmid and Captain Ward are known to be buried in the cemetery but their graves have since been lost.

February 2009:

November 2009: