#CWGC

Tim Godden

TJGodden

I've been going through photographs from many years of visiting and exploring the CWGC cemeteries along the old Western Front and thought I'd share a few. They're not photographs of

Andrew Fetherston

andyfev

No. 416 #CWGCAtoZ Alsager (Christ Church) Churchyard, England https://bit.ly/3dp6RAn contains 6 #FWW and 2 #SWW @CWGC war graves. The way families chose to mark their loved one's grave could have

Andrew Fetherston

andyfev

No. 398 #CWGCAtoZ Allonville Communal Cemetery, France https://bit.ly/3a6WvDI contains 79 @CWGC war graves, 78 of them from the #FWW. This photo, taken during an inspection visit in October 1922, shows

Jeremy Banning

jbanningww1

1. An important thread for all those who visit the #WW1 & #WW2 battlefields and cemeteries about the treatment of experienced @CWGC gardeners and staff. Read on…. 2. So, this

Graham Broad

ProfessorBroad

DM: "But aren't there way more than 25 war graves in that cemetery?" Let me explain. Foreground: Cpl. Frank Wilbur is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave. Background: Sapper Bernard

Sophie

MSovay

World War II looms heavily throughout Netflix's #TheDig, not least due to the frequent planes that fly overhead at the excavation. The @CWGC commemorates several servicemen whose squadrons were based

Dr Ghee Bowman

GheeBowman

Aurangzeb was just 16 when he left his village of Rajoha in #Punjab in 1939. His brothers were all in the army, so he joined up too. He became a

Dudley Giles

battleguide

Thread: “He saw some Germans going into a wood some distance off and wanted to telephone to the General. There was no telephone in the trench, so he ran 80

Nigel Stevens

legin_snevets

#OTD 1944 there was a small ceremony here as Edward Creber was buried. During training for DDay, towing a Horsa glider, the underpowered Whitley BD420 hit turbulence and suddenly veered

Gareth Davies

bermicourt

Richard (Jake) Easonsmith, was commissioned into the RTR in 1940. 1/ @RoyalTankRegt In early 1941 he joined the LRDG. He took part in the rescue of the SAS men of

François-Xavier Durandy

fxdurandy

दोस्तो, आज मैं आपको उस स्‍मारक की सैर कराता हूँ जो उत्तर फ़्रांस में प्रथम विश्व युद्ध के भा

Helen Roberts 💙

HelenR864

Look at this wonderful photograph of #Southampton Pier @HistoricalSoton sent 27/2/17. Another pc held by @statelibrarywa sent by Lance Sergeant James Leslie Turner, 28th Battalion, AIF who left Australia in

Peter Doyle

ProfPeterDoyle

Evolution of a guide: @I_W_M Very ‘HMSO’ in style, this was the first post-ww2 one. ‘The purpose of this booklet is to guide the visitor in a tour...’ the entrance

Dudley Giles

battleguide

"His life inspired in me a joy that shall outlast eternity". These are the words that Dorothy Sale chose for her husband's epitaph. Lt Richard Sale was just one of

Edward Madigan

MadiganEdward

On the centenary of the interment of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, a photograph of the Rev. David Railton MC, who conceived of the memorial while serving as an

Sophie

MSovay

The @CWGC is sometimes referred to as 'the largest gardening organisation in the world,' and it's easy to see why! Over 800 acres of ground at our sites are given

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