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Category Archives: Victoria Cross
Grootebeek British Cemetery
Grootebeek British Cemetery appears almost unfinished from the road, with no sign of a boundary wall separating field from burial ground.
Posted in Reninghelst, Victoria Cross
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Westoutre British Cemetery
Westouter’s second cemetery can be found just three hundred yards north of the church & churchyard that we visited last post.
Posted in Kemmel, Victoria Cross
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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Three
We ended the last post paying our respects at the Great War graves up on the hill in the background of this shot, and this time we’ll take a brief look at the burials down here in Plot A.
Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Two
There are around seven hundred Great War graves in this cemetery, seventy of which are to be found among the burials here in Plot R.
Aldershot Military Cemetery Part One
Aldershot – ‘The Home of the British Army’. At the start of 1855, with the Crimean War still more than a year from its conclusion, the Army began constructing its first bespoke, as we might say today, training camp in … Continue reading
Brookwood Cemetery – The Victoria Cross Holders
Brookwood Cemetery is vast. Not the military cemetery, which, at 37 acres, is big enough, but the civil cemetery, a small part of which you can see above.
French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Five – The Neuve Chapelle Memorial
This is the Neuve Chapelle Memorial.
Posted in French Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, Victoria Cross
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