WW1cemeteries.com @ww1cemeteries
A photographic guide to the cemeteries and memorials of the Great War. Older sibling of @ww2cemeteries. Not interested in your political views, thanks. ww1cemeteries.com Burnley, Lancashire Joined August 2016-
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Beautiful and poignant, our ancestors waving to us through the lens of time. A fascinating and touching film from the north of England in 1902.
Private Hugh Parry Griffiths. From #Bangor, Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), he served with the RWF. Buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, he died in June 1916 aged 21. Inscription: GWYN EU BYD Y RHAI ADDFWYN (BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO MOURN). 📷@RWFMuseum
A portrait of a smiling group of Gordon Highlanders in a reserve trench, Bazentin-le-Petit, November 1916. IWM Q 4475
OTD 1917: The Ox & Bucks were in the forefront at the Battle of Arleux a British offensive attacking German defences near Arras. As a result 2nd and 2/4th Battalions lost 71 men on the 28th April. @TheWFA @ww1cemeteries @CWGC
On the way to @UkNatArchives this morning and paid my respects at Mortlake Crematorium. Come on @CWGC there needs to be some TLC applied here! #CWGC #NationalArchives
Australian soldiers outside dugouts of 7th Australian Field Ambulance at Chailak Dere. In the right foreground is a wooden cross which is inscribed '1915 L/Cpl C H V MAYMAN No 634 C Co 27th Batt Died of Wounds Sept 24th'. Now commemorated at Embarkation Pier Cemetery. #Anzac2024
#AnzacDay2024 Australian Victoria Cross holders arrive in England for the 1956 VC Centenary Celebrations. #lestweforget2024
Private memorial to Lt. John Bury in Accrington Cemetery. John Bury, serving with the 5th East Lancs Bde. Royal Field Artillery, died at the Battle of Gully Ravine which ended with the British repelling a large Turkish counter attack. He is commemorated on the Helles memorial.
"I am only a cog in a giant machine, a link of an endless chain...." --#FWW soldier and poet Gilbert Frankau, born 21 April 1884. From his poem "Ammunition Column," which can be read here: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/04/only-c… #poetry #WW1
This is our idea of a very nice day out 😀
The Returning Blind Veterans of the First World War Memorial at Manchester Piccadilly station.
We are saddened to learn that club legend Leighton James has passed away at the age of 71. Our thoughts are with his family at this sad time.
A photograph of a busy scene at Victoria Station, London following the arrival of the leave train. Crowds of soldiers and women can be seen on the platform. Several large signs read: "French money exchanged here for officers and soldiers in uniform".
Old St Pancras Church, St Pancras House and Wells (Spa) & the Adam and Eve Tavern opposite the Church #London 1700 (Old&New London 1878)
A Photograph of Two women operating a shell case forming machine at the New Gun Factory at Woolwich, date unknown
View looking down Gipsy Road towards Crystal Palace. c1920. St. Gothard Road on the left. The Crystal Palace can be seen on the hill. The Palace burnt down in 1936. @LOVESE19
Flat Iron Copse Cemetery, Somme
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