Category Archives: U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries – Back in Blighty

Penzance – St. Mary’s Church War Memorial

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Magicfingers

Elsewhere in Penzance:

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Penzance War Memorial

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Magicfingers
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Fonthill Bishop Roll of Honour & Churchyard

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Magicfingers

Although the church (All Saints) was shut, and they don’t appear to want swallows nesting here, the porch was thankfully open, allowing us access to the Roll of Honour. In a little enclosed churchyard behind the church, two CWGC headstones … Continue reading →

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Valentine Joe Strudwick

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Magicfingers

This is Essex Farm Cemetery, just to the north of Ieper (Ypres).  It is a famous, and well-visited cemetery, for a number of reasons, not least that it was here that the poet John McCrae penned his ‘In Flanders Fields’ … Continue reading →

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Paul – St Pol de Léon’s Church

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Magicfingers

You can see the Roll of Honour (below) on the church tower (above). Some details of this magnificent window: And an explanation, if you can read it:

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St. Buryan Church & War Memorial

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Magicfingers

St. Buryan Church.  Note the war memorial to the right of the photo.   Twenty Merry Maidens… …and a dog. Cornish landsape.  

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Pencoys with Carnmenellis (Four Lanes) War Memorial & St. Andrews Church

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Magicfingers

Interesting to see this inscription remembering the men of the United States Army who were billeted around here in 1944. One killed so far from home, one so near, and yet so far.  So sad.

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