margaretdufay Posted 4 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 4 April , 2013 Nord department cemeteries Aulnoy les Vale Auberchicourt British Cemetery Avesnes le Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Cantaing British Cemetery Crest cemetery, Fontaine Notre Dame Denain cemetery extension Douai British cemetery Douai Communal Cemetery Extension Eterpigny british cemetery Flers en Escrebieux communal cemetery (very hard 1 grave) Flesquières Hill Cemetery Ghissignies British cemetery Haspres Copppice Cemetery Haverskerque British Cemetery Le Vertannoy British Cemetery Maing communal cemetery extensionLe Vertannoy British Cemetery Masny cemetery extension Niagara British Cemetery Iwuy Noyelles sur l'escaut communal cemetry extension Orsinval communal cemetery) Ruesnes communal cemetery St Aubert British Cemetery Solesmes British Cemetery Thiant Communal cemetery Vendegies Cross roads British Cemetery Villers guislain communal cemetery Pas de Calais military cemeteries Busnes communal cemetery Chili Trench military cemetery Gavrelel Dud corner cemetery loos (took me ages to do that) Fouquières les Bethune Communal Extension Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Isbergue Communal Cemetery Le Touret British cemetery Le Touret memorial panels Lillers Communal cemetery Extension Loos memorial panels Raillencourt Communal cemetery Extension Rue de Berceau Richebourg military cemetery Le Sart Saint Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery Got there yesterday just before the snowstorm started Forgot to add Querenaing Cemetery Extension Bermerain Cemetery Extension Did today Pont du Hem military cemetery Can anyone give any info why there are so many RAF graves, must be at least twenty. mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little bob Posted 5 April , 2013 Share Posted 5 April , 2013 Mags A very big public thank you for the photographs. It was very kind of you. They are greatly appreciated. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Bennett Posted 5 April , 2013 Share Posted 5 April , 2013 A big thank you to Mags for a lot of names from the Le Touret Memorial for the SAWGP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 6 April , 2013 Share Posted 6 April , 2013 Mags, I love the fact that you are going for, how shall we say, the lesser well known Cemeteries. All just as important though. Having perused your list can I put my ten pence worth in please. Chili Trench Private FJ Budd - Special memorial C. 18 Private GR Flinn - Special Memorial C. 20 Ghissignies British Private W Whate - A. 45 If you can send them to the usual email address I would be very appreciative. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 6 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2013 It's really just the fact that I drive past them and stop rather than a firm choice of choosing the lesser well known ones. Mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf mcm Posted 7 April , 2013 Share Posted 7 April , 2013 A public thanks to you Mags for all the great work you are doing. I am really pleased with the photos you sent me. They are very much appreciated. Regards, Alf McM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 8 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 8 April , 2013 Posted 04 April 2013 - 06:50 PM Nord department cemeteries Aulnoy les Vale Auberchicourt British Cemetery Avesnes le Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Cantaing British Cemetery Crest cemetery, Fontaine Notre Dame Denain cemetery extension Douai British cemetery Douai Communal Cemetery Extension Eterpigny british cemetery Flers en Escrebieux communal cemetery (very hard 1 grave) Flesquières Hill Cemetery Ghissignies British cemetery Haspres Copppice Cemetery Haverskerque British Cemetery Le Vertannoy British Cemetery Maing communal cemetery extensionLe Vertannoy British Cemetery Masny cemetery extension Niagara British Cemetery Iwuy Noyelles sur l'escaut communal cemetry extension Orsinval communal cemetery) Ruesnes communal cemetery St Aubert British Cemetery Solesmes British Cemetery Thiant Communal cemetery Vendegies Cross roads British Cemetery Villers guislain communal cemetery Pas de Calais military cemeteries Busnes communal cemetery Chili Trench military cemetery Gavrelel Dud corner cemetery loos (took me ages to do that) Fouquières les Bethune Communal Extension Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Isbergue Communal Cemetery Le Touret British cemetery Le Touret memorial panels Lillers Communal cemetery Extension Loos memorial panels Raillencourt Communal cemetery Extension Rue de Berceau Richebourg military cemetery Le Sart Saint Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery Got there yesterday just before the snowstorm started Forgot to add Querenaing Cemetery Extension Bermerain Cemetery Extension Pont du Hem military cemetery Can anyone give any info why there are so many RAF graves, must be at least twenty. To add today Naves communal cemetery Caudry British Cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 8 April , 2013 Share Posted 8 April , 2013 Mags, can I add two more to my little list posted above please? Naves Communal Cemetery Ext Lance Corporal E Stenton - III. E. 2 Private RN Hodgson - IV. A. 10 Merci beaucoup Madame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 10 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Just a quick word, if there are cemeteries that you would like to be photographed, please let me know, at the moment, it's really at random. And a comment that I would like to make, is that when you go to a cemetery, which the CWGC announces that there are about five hundred graves, and you discover that there are over six hundred unidentified stones, it is really humbling, and brings reality close to home of the real horror of the war. br mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Lang Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Came across this and wanted to say what a wonderful thing you are doing. Many, many good wishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 10 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Thanks Tom, that is very nice of you to say that. This really started last year. When I was younger my parents lived in Leeds. We had a sister who died there when she was about two. And when my parents died nobody really knew where or if my sister had a gravestone. Someone who is a member of a cemetery website in Yorkshire offered and found where my sister was buried, and last year my sister and myself were able to travel down to Leeds and lay flowers for her for the first time in I don't know how many years.My parents were just never able to talk about her. And although that may sound a bit "soppy", I suppose that if I can help anyone out with a photo of a stone, then I am really remembering the person that helped me refind my sister's grave.Also, this is making me visit parts of the region that were witherto unknown to me. mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Just a quick word, if there are cemeteries that you would like to be photographed, please let me know, at the moment, it's really at random. And a comment that I would like to make, is that when you go to a cemetery, which the CWGC announces that there are about five hundred graves, and you discover that there are over six hundred unidentified stones, it is really humbling, and brings reality close to home of the real horror of the war. br mags Unfortunately nearly all the names I have on my list are individuals at various Cemeteries, so there will be no requests for full Cemeteries from me. The only ones that I have a good handful of names at tend to be either over in Normandy or on the coastline where the field hospitals were. And I'm guessing that they are slightly out of your range at the moment!!! When I visited Tyne Cot the enormity of the place blew me away and when I found out about the numbers of the soldiers named on the screen wall (35000+) and also the 12000 headstones, the fact that of those 12000 headstones only 3500 have names on them, that was when the reality hit me of the amount of anonymity that all the Soldiers really had when both alive and after death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 10 April , 2013 Share Posted 10 April , 2013 Do you have my list for Arras Memorial? I cant remember if I sent you them so I shall add it here for you. Private F. Naylor, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private F.S. Sheardown, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private W.E. Taylor, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private A. Trafford, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private H.B. White, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private W.E. Wilson, Lincolnshire Regiment Panel 3 and 4. Private J.H. Vickers, West Yorkshire Regiment Panel 4. Private S. Little, East Yorkshire Regiment Panel 4 and 5. Private A.H. Wright, East Yorkshire Regiment Panel 4 and 5. Private J.H. Balderstone, Lancashire Fusiliers Panel 5. Lance Corporal J.F. Mersom, Lancashire Fusiliers Panel 5. 2nd Lieutenant W. Baxter, Leicestershire Regiment Panel 5. Private F. Wilson, Bedfordshire Regiment Panel 5 R.S.M. L. Gabbitas, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) Panel 7. Private F.L. Hool, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Panel 7. Private. J. Fox, Highland Light Infantry Panel 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 11 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 11 April , 2013 Tony, I do have them, and if the weather holds, I will be going to Arras next Monday to do them Mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 11 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 11 April , 2013 Nord department cemeteries Aulnoy les Vale Auberchicourt British Cemetery Avesnes le Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Cantaing British Cemetery Caudry British Cemetery Crest cemetery, Fontaine Notre Dame Denain cemetery extension Douai British cemetery Douai Communal Cemetery Extension Eterpigny british cemetery Flers en Escrebieux communal cemetery (very hard 1 grave) Flesquières Hill Cemetery Ghissignies British cemetery Haspres Copppice Cemetery Haverskerque British Cemetery Le Vertannoy British Cemetery Maing communal cemetery extensionLe Vertannoy British Cemetery Masny cemetery extension Naves communal cemetery Niagara British Cemetery Iwuy Noyelles sur l'escaut communal cemetry extension Orsinval communal cemetery) Ruesnes communal cemetery St Aubert British Cemetery Solesmes British Cemetery Thiant Communal cemetery Vendegies Cross roads British Cemetery Villers guislain communal cemetery Pas de Calais military cemeteries Busnes communal cemetery Chili Trench military cemetery Gavrelel Dud corner cemetery loos (took me ages to do that) Fouquières les Bethune Communal Extension Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Isbergue Communal Cemetery Le Touret British cemetery Le Touret memorial panels Lillers Communal cemetery Extension Loos memorial panels Raillencourt Communal cemetery Extension Rue de Berceau Richebourg military cemetery Le Sart Saint Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery Got there yesterday just before the snowstorm started Forgot to add Querenaing Cemetery Extension Bermerain Cemetery Extension Pont du Hem military cemetery Can anyone give any info why there are so many RAF graves, must be at least twenty. To add today Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension Thiennes British Cemetery St Vaast Communal Cemetery Tannay British Cemetery St Hilaire les Cambrai British Cemetery Caudry British Cemetery Quote MultiQuote =1890480&st=50&auth_key=b5b39fb0fbd43066fa11514e86f79636"]Delete Edit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dycer Posted 11 April , 2013 Share Posted 11 April , 2013 Mags, Have you not yet had a lunch aside Sailly-sur-La -Lys Churchyard?. Don''t fret if you've missed it. I'll be calling in,in June. But I wish to emphatically stress ,to the Forum.I,will visit Sailly Church and it's burial ground but nothing more George. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 11 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 11 April , 2013 It's a great activity to reduce shopping time, must be saving myself a bomb. mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 11 April , 2013 Share Posted 11 April , 2013 Theres one more from my list that you have photographed Thiennes British Cemetery Corporal FNC Reeson - Plot F. 6 Add it to the list for sending Cheers me dears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 23 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 23 April , 2013 Nord department cemeteries Aulnoy les Vale Auberchicourt British Cemetery Avesnes le Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Bermerain Cemetery Extension Cantaing British Cemetery Caudry British Cemetery Crest cemetery, Fontaine Notre Dame Denain cemetery extension Douai British cemetery Douai Communal Cemetery Extension Eterpigny british cemetery Flers en Escrebieux communal cemetery (very hard 1 grave) Flesquières Hill Cemetery Ghissignies British cemetery Haspres Copppice Cemetery Haverskerque British Cemetery Le Vertannoy British Cemetery Maing communal cemetery extensionLe Vertannoy British Cemetery Masny cemetery extension Naves communal cemetery Niagara British Cemetery Iwuy Noyelles sur l'escaut communal cemetry extension Orsival communal cemetery Pont du Hem military cemetery Querenaing Cemetery Extension Ruesnes communal cemetery St Aubert British Cemetery St Hilaire les Cambrai British Cemetery Solesmes British Cemetery Thiant Communal cemetery Vendegies Cross roads British Cemetery Villers guislain communal cemetery Pas de Calais military cemeteries Busnes communal cemetery Chili Trench military cemetery Gavrelel Dud corner cemetery loos (took me ages to do that) Fouquières les Bethune Communal Extension Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension Isbergue Communal Cemetery Le Touret British cemetery Le Touret memorial panels Lillers Communal cemetery Extension Loos memorial panels Raillencourt Communal cemetery Extension Rue de Berceau Richebourg military cemetery Le Sart St Vaast Communal Cemetery Saint Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery Tannay British Cemetery Thiennes British Cemetery Here are a few additions Gouy en Artois communal cemetery Extension York cemetery Haspres Wailly orchard Cemetery Caestre military cemetery Esquelbecq military cemetery mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 23 April , 2013 Share Posted 23 April , 2013 Gouy en Artois Communal Cemetery Extension, Wailly Orchard Cemetery and York Cemetery Haspres please. I think from your earlier photographic conquests, there is only Ghissignies British Cemetery outstanding from my list. I cant even start to imagine how many batteries you get through! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 25 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 25 April , 2013 Gouy en Artois Communal Cemetery Extension, Wailly Orchard Cemetery and York Cemetery Haspres please. I think from your earlier photographic conquests, there is only Ghissignies British Cemetery outstanding from my list. I cant even start to imagine how many batteries you get through! I just recharge them, Upton Wood near Ecoust St Mein Arras Road military cemetery mags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 25 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 25 April , 2013 Vertain extension military cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margaretdufay Posted 25 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 25 April , 2013 Posted 23 April 2013 - 07:18 AM Nord department cemeteries Aulnoy les Vale Auberchicourt British Cemetery Avesnes le Sec Communal Cemetery Extension Bermerain Cemetery Extension Cantaing British Cemetery Caudry British Cemetery Crest cemetery, Fontaine Notre Dame Denain cemetery extension Douai British cemetery Douai Communal Cemetery Extension Eterpigny british cemetery Flers en Escrebieux communal cemetery (very hard 1 grave) Flesquières Hill Cemetery Ghissignies British cemetery Haspres Copppice Cemetery Haverskerque British Cemetery Le Vertannoy British Cemetery Maing communal cemetery extensionLe Vertannoy British Cemetery Masny cemetery extension Naves communal cemetery Niagara British Cemetery Iwuy Noyelles sur l'escaut communal cemetry extension Orsival communal cemetery Pont du Hem military cemetery Querenaing Cemetery Extension Ruesnes communal cemetery St Aubert British Cemetery St Hilaire les Cambrai British Cemetery Solesmes British Cemetery Thiant Communal cemetery Vendegies Cross roads British Cemetery Villers guislain communal cemetery Pas de Calais military cemeteries Busnes communal cemetery Chili Trench military cemetery Gavrelel Dud corner cemetery loos (took me ages to do that) Fouquières les Bethune Communal Extension Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension Isbergue Communal Cemetery Le Touret British cemetery Le Touret memorial panels Lillers Communal cemetery Extension Loos memorial panels Raillencourt Communal cemetery Extension Rue de Berceau Richebourg military cemetery Le Sart St Vaast Communal Cemetery Saint Venant Robecq Road British Cemetery Tannay British Cemetery Thiennes British Cemetery Here are a few additions Gouy en Artois communal cemetery Extension York cemetery Haspres Wailly orchard Cemetery Caestre military cemetery Esquelbecq military cemetery Upton Wood near Ecoust St Mein Arras Road military cemetery Vertain extension military cemetery and today cos the weather was absolutely fantastic and I had my afternoon Ecoivres military cemetery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temptage Posted 25 April , 2013 Share Posted 25 April , 2013 I got all excited when I saw the last Cemetery, then realised that I had got excited for nothing as I have no names there that I still need. I got confused with Etaples Military Cemetery where I have lots! Ho hum! But could I ask if you could send me the photos of these four soldiers please Lance Corporal J Holland, 10th Bn. Cheshire Regiment. Plot 2. E. 17. Private E Perry 22nd Bn. Canadian Expeditionary Force. Plot 6. C. 7. Private D Sinizki, 52nd Bn. Canadian Expeditionary Force. Plot 6. K. 19. (spelt Sinicky on headstone) Private M. R. Richmond, 1st/6th Gordon Highlanders. Plot 5. L. 8. I do already have photos of these 4, but they are all low quality but I would like copies that are to your continual very high standards ........ no pressure then!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little bob Posted 26 April , 2013 Share Posted 26 April , 2013 Mags I wonder if I could trouble you for a photograph from Esquelbecq Military Cemetery please. Pte., 66193 I C Williams 9th Btn., Cheshire Regiment . Grave ref., I. B. 27. Thanking you very much. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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