Category Archives: Surrey

Dorking – Independent Order of Oddfellows Rolls of Honour

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Magicfingers

By the way, the lesson to be learnt here is to keep your wits about you and your eyes peeled.  Even strolling up a high street, you never know what you might find.

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The Americans at Brookwood – Updated 2024

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Magicfingers

The Brookwood American Military Cemetery is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission, its four plots containing, in total, 468 casualties of the Great War.

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Old Oxted Roll of Honour

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Magicfingers

My notes said, ‘tablet on side of building’, and as Old Oxted consists of pretty much a single street, I reckoned we’d have a decent chance of finding it.  So we parked up, the dog and I made a couple … Continue reading →

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Muslim Burial Ground Peace Garden – Inaugural Commemoration Service 16th July 2017

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Magicfingers

Last Sunday I was an invited guest at the Inaugural Commemoration Service of the Muslim Burial Ground Peace Garden on Horsell Common, Woking, and there follows a photographic record of the afternoon.

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Leatherhead Royal British Legion

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Magicfingers

My vote for the most uninteresting post in the five years of this site (if you have any other contenders I really don’t want to hear about them!).  And they’ve moved since I took this shot anyway!

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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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The Opening Ceremony of the Muslim Burial Ground Peace Garden

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Magicfingers

I was privileged to be invited to the opening ceremony of the Muslim Burial Ground Peace Garden on Horsell Common today.

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