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Pete's Western Front Cycling Odyssey On the 4th May I'm catching the Ferry to Zeebrugge and cycling to Basel in Switzerland along the Wes

Lyon's war memorial
12/02/2024

Lyon's war memorial

Soldiers and resisters from all France's wars
12/02/2024

Soldiers and resisters from all France's wars

Military cemetery Marrakech 174 French or foreign soldiers who died for France or died in service
31/12/2023

Military cemetery Marrakech 174 French or foreign soldiers who died for France or died in service

This cemetery is the final resting place of 100 First and Second World War Commonwealth service personnel. They be at re...
03/06/2023

This cemetery is the final resting place of 100 First and Second World War Commonwealth service personnel. They be at rest alongside 286 German servicemen and civilians, and one member of the Polish Resettlement Corps

During the First World War Cannock Chase was home to several large military camps, and over 500,000 men trained here. This cemetery was begun in 1917 for the burial of Commonwealth servicemen who died in the camp hospital. At this time a prisoner of war (POW) camp was established on the Chase at Brocton, and German POWs who died in captivity were also laid to rest here. Many of these men, Commonwealth and German, died during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic known as "Spanish Flu

During the Second World War the cemetery continued to be used by the military. A Royal Air Force base was established nearby and three RAF personnel were buried here. However, the majority of the 1939-45 burials here were of German aircrew shot down over Brain or German POWs who died in captivity

The cemetery was created in the 1950s to bring together all the German war dead in the UK that were not already in milit...
02/06/2023

The cemetery was created in the 1950s to bring together all the German war dead in the UK that were not already in military cemeteries, trips used to be run from Germany for relatives to visit, some families still pay into a fund to have flowers put on their relatives grave

Quite terrible
04/05/2023

Quite terrible

War has a long reach
04/05/2023

War has a long reach

Some of the thousands of servicemen drowned in the sinking of the RMS Lancastria in June 1940
22/08/2022

Some of the thousands of servicemen drowned in the sinking of the RMS Lancastria in June 1940

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