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

Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Non-Commonwealth Nations

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Magicfingers

I’m afraid to say that I fibbed last post.  I did mention that we would see what’s what in the civil cemetery this time, but it subsequently occurred to me that I could show you some of the less well-known … Continue reading →

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Brookwood Military Cemetery – The Memorials, Past & Present

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Magicfingers

We shall start the New Year with the first in a series of posts about Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey and the adjoining, and much smaller – a mere 37 acres – Brookwood Military Cemetery, which is where we begin.

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Portchester: Portchester Castle & St Mary’s Church & Churchyard

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Magicfingers

The wall of the old Roman fort that surrounds both Portchester Castle & St. Mary’s Church. Aerial view.  Unusual, eh?  Coin evidence dates the Roman fort (the best preserved example north of the Alps) to around AD 268, the castle … Continue reading →

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Royal Armouries: Fort Nelson

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Magicfingers

Some sort of bunker, perhaps? 

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Netley Military Cemetery Part Six: The Roman Catholic Plot

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Magicfingers

So here we are, back at the hill we saw when we first entered the cemetery.  The earliest Great War burial is to be found here, but before we explore the hill, if we skirt the bushes on our left, … Continue reading →

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Netley Military Cemetery Part Five: The Officers’ Plot

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Magicfingers

With the Boer War graves we visited last post bathed in sunlight on the left, it’s time to visit the Officers’ Plot, seen here on the right.

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Netley Military Cemetery Part Four – Death at Home & Distant Engagements

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Magicfingers

A short distance from the Great War Non-Conformist plot we visited last post, and as we make our way towards the Officers’ plot (next post), these scattered graves on the hillside are among the earlier, late-19th Century, turn of the … Continue reading →

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