Category Archives: Victoria Cross

Westoutre British Cemetery

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Magicfingers

Westouter’s second cemetery can be found just three hundred yards north of the church & churchyard that we visited last post.

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Three

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part Two

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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Aldershot Military Cemetery Part One

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Magicfingers

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 →

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Brookwood Cemetery – The Victoria Cross Holders

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Magicfingers

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.

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