Guest Pete Wood Posted 5 September , 2003 Share Posted 5 September , 2003 The Zeppelin Oak at Potters Bar, on which the L31 fell in 1916. You can just make out the cordon of soldiers surrounding the airship - to keep the souvenir hunters at bay.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 5 September , 2003 Share Posted 5 September , 2003 Racing Teapots, Zepplins and English oak trees don't seem to go well together do they. They seem at least to have had a decent burial. Who is resposible for their graves now? Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pete Wood Posted 5 September , 2003 Share Posted 5 September , 2003 The Zeppelin crews, and all the other WW1 and WW2 Germans (4929 as of my last visit) buried at Cannock Chase, are in the care of the CWGC. In the visitor reception area, you will also find lots of information from German groups who assist with information and also help maintain the site (on a voluntary basis). This is in addition to the work of the groundsmen from the CWGC. So you will often end up speaking to the most incredibly polite German students and well-wishers - many of whom now have quite strong Staffordshire accents. If anyone is interested, the BBC has a website which allows you to have a panoramic view of the cemetery Cannock Chase If you click in the panoramic view, with your mouse, you can stop the camera and move the picture up and down. Press A on your keyboard and you can also zoom in. Very clever! Maybe this panoramic view of the cemeteries is something that the CWGC might consider (along with a 1000 other ideas) as a future project.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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