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

North Sunderland (Seahouses) War Memorial

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Ashover War Memorial

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Cornhill-on-Tweed – War Memorial & St. Helen’s Churchyard

Just up the road, St. Helen’s Church was unfortunately locked, but the churchyard revealed one son who never returned home:

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Staveley War Memorial

Staveley Memorial Gardens, in which the war memorial stands, were built to commemorate the men of the Notts & Derby Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) who were killed during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

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In Memorium

Interesting plaque I noticed whilst passing through the town of Clay Cross in North East Derbyshire this afternoon.

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Plymouth – Ford Park Cemetery Part Three

The grave of Captain Andrew Henry, Royal Garrison Artillery, who won the Victoria Cross defending his guns at the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimea in November 1854, and who died in Plymouth in 1870.                          … Continue reading

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Plymouth – Ford Park Cemetery Part Two

                                                                                                              Which brings us to the end of Part Two.  One final part to go: Ford Park Cemetery Part Three

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