Monthly Archives: November 2013

Dorking – St. Martin’s Church & Old War Memorial

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Magicfingers

         

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Dorking Cemetery

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Magicfingers

There are thirty First World War graves here, and thirty two from the Second World War.  The majority of the burials are scattered throughout the cemetery, although there is a small World War II plot near the northern boundary. World … Continue reading →

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Hanger Hill (Weybridge) War Memorial

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Magicfingers

And just down the road: Two years earlier, and the memorial receives a well-needed clean:

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Ashtead War Memorial

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Magicfingers

A sunny November afternoon in Ashtead, a few photos… …only to discover, on reaching home, that my belief that I already had a folder in which photographs of Ashtead War Memorial were secreted was erroneous.  I returned the following day … Continue reading →

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Ypres Reservoir Cemetery

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Magicfingers

Evening in Ieper, and snow begins to fall as we arrive at the gates of Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.

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A Tour of Potijze Part Five – Aeroplane Cemetery

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Magicfingers

Two hundred and fifty yards east of St. Charles de Potyze, the final stop on our tour is Aeroplane Cemetery, so called because in 1917 the wreck of an aeroplane lay near to where the Cross of Sacrifice now stands.

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A Tour of Potijze Part Four – Potijze Demarcation Stone & St. Charles de Potyze Military Cemetery

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Magicfingers

A short way east of Potijze, this is one of nineteen Demarcation Stones still to be found in Belgium. They were erected in the 1920s to either mark the extent of the German offensive that finally petered out in July … Continue reading →

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