Terry Denham Posted 17 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Salient The memorial to which you refer is to Gnr Albert Edwin Wheeler RHA Died 07.05.82. It is at Herenthagstraat, Zillebeke. It is only a memorial headstone. He is not buried there but his ashes were scattered at Bedford House Cemetery. The memorial is on private land but the landowners voluntarily look after the stone. It bears the inscription "Resting with his comrades" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 17 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Photo courtesy of "Private Memorials of the Great War on the Western Front" by Barrie Thorpe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 17 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Notice that the above appears to be a copy of an official CWGC war grave headstone - at least in shape - rather than the more proper Non-World War type. However, as this is not a grave, no rule or custom has been broken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 17 November , 2004 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2004 Erwin There are photos of the CWGC staff Non-World War headstones in this thread... http://1914-1918.org/forum/index.php?showt...9&hl=cwgc+staff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
healdav Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 On a tangent, in a French cemetery near me, there are WW2 graves of Russians. Some are marked 'Soldat Sovietique' others, 'Soldat Russe'. There is no distinction of date or anything else. Does anyone happen to know whether there is any distinction between these two terms or was it, as someone has suggested that two different men did the captions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatterySergeantMajor Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 Sorry to restart what was known already, but it is impossible to know all the former threads . Thanks anyway for the link to the thread. Although I am going from time to time to this cemetery, I still learned more about the backgrounds of the dcision to move the graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 On a tangent, in a French cemetery near me, there are WW2 graves of Russians. Some are marked 'Soldat Sovietique' others, 'Soldat Russe'. There is no distinction of date or anything else. Does anyone happen to know whether there is any distinction between these two terms or was it, as someone has suggested that two different men did the captions? Not all citizens of the USSR - i.e. "Soviets" - were Russian. Alternatively, are the "Russe" markings new? Perhaps after more recent events, graves that were originally "Soviet" at the time are no longer deemed to be so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatterySergeantMajor Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 There is also a Russian WW1 grave at Arras cemetery - again, different shape of stone. Odd location for a Russian. I knaw they had two brigades in the French Army, but to my knowledge no connection with the British? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatterySergeantMajor Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 I knew, and not "I knaw". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salientguide Posted 18 November , 2004 Share Posted 18 November , 2004 Terry thats the one, I took it for an actual grave, did wonder how he got permission for a burial there in so public a location but that explains things.The stone is an almost exact copy of the CWGC format. Many thanks salientguide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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