Red Farm Military Cemetery

Update June 2020: Before you go any further, you should know that this post has since been superseded by a newer Red Farm Military Cemetery post as further research has revealed more details about what happened here, which have changed the story just a little, but significantly so.  Should you wish to go straight to the newer Red Farm post, click here.  Alternatively, please feel free to read this post anyway – the Red Farm information is still accurate and basically the same in both posts, but the Dirty Bucket Camp section has become irrelevant to the story, although I hope still of interest.

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