Albert communal cemetery.

[Liam]

Just visiting the cwgc cemetery in Albert and noticed a plot of what look like cwgc headstones outside the military cemetery. Most are unnamed but some do have plaques etc to French locals. Does anyone know what they are. 

[Wesley Wright]

A local informed some years ago that the locals used "unused "Cwgc stones .

Edited 9 October , 2017 by Wesley Wright

[Liam]

Thanks Wesley 

 

That was confirmed by a tour guide I was chatting to this week. Apparantly they were 'seconds' donated by the CWGC 

 

 

Liam

[mva]

On 09/10/2017 at 21:22, Wesley Wright said:

A local informed some years ago that the locals used "unused "Cwgc stones .

 

On 11/10/2017 at 14:35, Liam said:

Thanks Wesley 

 

That was confirmed by a tour guide I was chatting to this week. Apparantly they were 'seconds' donated by the CWGC 

 

 

Liam

Hello from the Somme,

I am sorry to tell you that this is totally wrong !

Reading this, I have asked somebody who has been working for the CWGC all his life : these stones are made of concrete & not of real stone. There are no 'unused' or 'seconds' given by the CWGC.

The concrete  'stones' are 'copies' of original stones ; people from nearby old peoples' home are buried there. And they are not as thick as the real CWGC stones, which are 3" (16 mm) thick. these copies are only 5 or 6 cm 'thin'

Please don't believe all  what locals or even tour guides tell you !

Kind regards, martine

Edited 2 November , 2017 by mva