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The headstones of some of the almost 5,000 German war graves to be found in a large Staffordshire cemetery. In the foreground is the grave of Siegfried Primke, whose JU-88 crashed in the Bristol Channel on 7th December 1941.

📍Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery 🇬🇧

An unusual war grave which belongs to Capt Francis Yates, KOYLI, whose resting place is marked with a private memorial. What makes it unusual is that he died in France and was one of only a handful to be repatriated back to the UK.

📍Donnington (St Cuthbert) Churchyard 🇬🇧

A great day visiting the @rafmuseum.bsky.social, Cosford. Three hangers to explore: ‘Test Flight’ covers WW1, the Battle of Britain, and prototypes from the 1960s; ‘War in the Air’ focuses largely on Bomber Command; and the largest hanger is home to the ‘National Cold War Exhibition’.

Volunteer Alfred Beck, Home Guard, died at Rugby Hospital from injuries sustained during the Coventry Blitz.

📍Coventry (London Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

“Sacrificed on the altar of Armageddon at Passchendaele, the ridge upon which the hopes of so many of our young and promising men have been blasted.”

Stirring words in a newspaper article that announced the death of Second Lieutenant John Low MC MM.

📍Polygon Wood Cemetery 🇧🇪

Private Edwin Whyman had a long career with the Royal Marine Light Infantry, serving on many ships, and saw action in a number of WW1 naval battles. He even survived a sinking after his ship, HMS Nottingham, was torpedoed in August 1916.

📍Nottingham General Cemetery 🇬🇧

Remembering Dr Cuthbert Stanley, a civilian doctor “who with magnificent fortitude died a cruel death at the hands of the Japanese military police.” Doctor Stanley is buried in Singapore and is remembered in his hometown.

📍Hinckley Cemetery 🇬🇧

“Sergt. Hough had a frail body, but a stout and fearless heart.”

Words used by the Hinckley Times to describe Royal Army Medical Corps’ non-commissioned officer Alfred Hough, who is officially commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval.

📍Hinckley Cemetery 🇬🇧

On 29th November 1944, a Tiger Moth training aircraft crashed into the back garden of a house in Chelmsford, killing two men. One of those killed was Staff Serjeant Clifford Wormleighton, Glider Pilot Regt, who was piloting the aircraft.

📍Coventry (London Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

The epitaph “One of the Few” gives a nod to the part played by Pilot Officer Paul Baillon in the Battle of Britain.

📍Bayeux War Cemetery 🇫🇷

The headstone of Percy Kelley, RAF, states he was just 17 years and 11 months old when he died at Endell Street Military Hospital, London. His casualty card states he died of influenza on this day in 1918.

📍Foleshill Congregational Burial Ground 🇬🇧

The casualty card belonging to Private 2nd Class Percy Greenslade, RAF, states that he died of cerebral effusion and heart failure while serving at Lilbourne, Warwickshire.

📍Clifton-on-Dunsmore (St Mary) Additional Churchyard 🇬🇧

Shot at Dawn Shot At Dawn

An excellent website, which details those who were shot at dawn by country and cemetery. There are 17 buried in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery.

www.ww1cemeteries.com/shot-at-dawn...

Private Reginald Tite, Royal Sussex Regiment, was executed by firing squad for cowardice on this day in 1916. Ninety years later he was one of 306 soldiers who were granted a posthumous pardon.

📍Poperinghe New Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

Able Seaman Henry Cullimore, of Cromhall, Gloucestershire, drowned in Budapest while serving on H.M. Motor Launch 434. He is one of only four Great War servicemen buried in Hungary. His remains were moved to their current location in 1958.

📍Budapest War Cemetery 🇭🇺

Cpl Joshua Wilson rests in a cemetery where I volunteer for the CWGC. He was the son of William and Mary Wilson and was the husband of Beatrice, of 25 Fitton St, Nuneaton. Apart from his medal index card, I can’t find much else about him.

📍Nuneaton (Oaston Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

The grave of F/S Jack Emmott, Royal Australian Air Force, whose aircraft failed to return following an attack on the Szombathely marshalling yards. Other crews reported that night fighters were active in the area, and some aircraft were shot down.

📍 Budapest War Cemetery 🇭🇺

Private Carl Andreasen, Dorsetshire Regiment, was killed in 1942 when a mortar bomb he was firing at exploded. The bomb had failed to explode during a training session and was dug up and fired at under the instructions of a sergeant.

📍Poole (Broadstone) Cemetery 🇬🇧

Remembering 18-year-old Doris Norman, Women’s Royal Naval Service, who died of tubercular meningitis on this day in 1943.

📍Market Bosworth (St Peter) Churchyard 🇬🇧

Remembering the crew of Consolidated B-24 Liberator BZ891 who were lost on 18 November 1943 during a minelaying mission off Crete. The headstone of Polish airman F/O Janusz Zbyszyński particularly stood out to me.

📍Suda Bay War Cemetery 🇬🇷

Two soldier brothers named on a headstone in a Leicestershire village. Ernest, a sapper in the Royal Engineers, died on this day in 1920 ‘from the effects of serving’. Sidney, a private in the RAMC, was killed by a shell in France in 1918.

📍Burbage (St Catherine) Churchyard 🇬🇧

Cpl Albert Farley, Royal Engineers Establishment for Engineer Services, is one of a handful of WW1 burials to be found in Portugal. Intriguing, he seems to have been awarded the Silver Medal of the Order of St. Stanislas (Russia).

📍Lisbon (St George) British Cemetery 🇵🇹

One of three brothers who gave their lives in the Great War, Capt. Rev. Noel Hawdon died of pneumonia following influenza. His brother Cecil was killed in June 1916, and another brother, Rupert, fell just 12 earlier, on 4 November 1918.

📍Terlincthun British Cemetery🇫🇷

Enjoyed walking part of Liberation Route Europe’s new trail in Coventry with this morning. Fascinating to hear about the destruction, courage, and Blitz spirit shown by the city’s people exactly 85 years ago.

Memorial plaques remembering the victims of the Coventry Blitz—tragically killed on this night in 1940 during the war’s most destructive raid up to that point. It’s important these people are not forgotten.

📍Coventry (Windmill Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

Bluebells surround the headstone of L/Cpl John Rose, who died of meningitis the day after the armistice was signed. John was his parents’ only surviving son after his brother, Thomas, was killed in Iraq in May 1916.

📍Lutterworth (St Mary) Churchyard 🇬🇧

I always think of you when I see Welch/Welsh and RFC/RAF/Buckle/No Buckle! Presumably in the photo below the left headstone is likely to be a replacement and the right is an original.

For over 80 years, Pte Horn lay in an unmarked grave. Thanks to research by local history enthusiast Paul Cobb, the @CWGC was able to install a headstone in 2001.

www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/7362058...

Private Frederick Horn served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He would die in an Oxfordshire hospital two years later, on 11th November 1918.

📍Lechlade Cemetery 🇬🇧

Attended this morning’s remembrance parade and service in my hometown, Nuneaton. Wonderful to see thousands of people watching the parade and remembering those from the town who made the ultimate sacrifice.