War Graves in Gibraltar

spidge · 07-08-2008, 06:48 PM

There are 11 RAAF deaths recorded in Gibraltar. If anyone is able to take photos of these headstones or knows anybody that can, please let me know.

Cheers

Geoff

These are the cemeteries:

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AndyBaldEagle · 03-09-2008, 08:15 AM

Geoff
Send me a PM/email with the ones you need from North Front and I will ask the chap who provided me mine if he has them

Andy

AndyBaldEagle · 03-09-2008, 09:03 PM

Geoff

Hopefully you will have received the four emails I sent of the 8 pics, hopefully they will suffice

Andy

englandphil · 14-02-2009, 08:06 AM

Geoff, here arethe ones I got, although as per PM, not Fitzpatrick's

07-08-2008, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
spidge Very Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 7,268	War Graves in Gibraltar There are 11 RAAF deaths recorded in Gibraltar. If anyone is able to take photos of these headstones or knows anybody that can, please let me know. Cheers Geoff These are the cemeteries: <table x:str="" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 507px; height: 54px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><col style="width: 215pt;" width="286"> <tbody><tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"> <td class="xl24" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 215pt;" height="17" width="286">GIBRALTAR (NORTH FRONT) CEMETERY</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"> <td class="xl24" style="border-top: medium none; height: 12.75pt;" height="17">GIBRALTAR MEMORIAL</td> </tr> </tbody></table><table x:str="" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 215pt;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="286"><col style="width: 215pt;" width="286"><col> <tbody><tr><td class="xl24" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 215pt;" height="17" width="286">GILGIL WAR CEMETERY </td> </tr></tbody><tbody><tr style="height: 12.75pt;" height="17"></tr></tbody></table> __________________ Spidge, My project is the collection of over 11,200 RAAF Headstone/Memorial photos located in 67 countries during WW2 and the 360+ from WW1. Can you assist? Do you know someone that can? ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the State flag of Victoria. My dad, Gunner Frederick Edwin Swallow "C" Company, 2/8th Battalion, 19th Brigade, 6th Division AIF. Critically wounded on the first attack on Tobruk, January 21st 1941.

03-09-2008, 08:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
AndyBaldEagle Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Essex Posts: 733	Geoff Send me a PM/email with the ones you need from North Front and I will ask the chap who provided me mine if he has them Andy __________________ In proud memory of Lieutenant James Henry Woods 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th September 1944 Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson 156th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 21st September 1944 Sergeant John Burge Glider Pilot Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th-26th September 1944 Corporal John Walter Bentley 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action on the Rhine 24th March 1945 LEST WE FORGET 'They are free-yes-but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die' (from The Peloponesian War?- Herodotus 490-425BC )

03-09-2008, 09:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
AndyBaldEagle Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Essex Posts: 733	Geoff Hopefully you will have received the four emails I sent of the 8 pics, hopefully they will suffice Andy __________________ In proud memory of Lieutenant James Henry Woods 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th September 1944 Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson 156th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 21st September 1944 Sergeant John Burge Glider Pilot Regiment Killed in Action at Oosterbeek Arnhem 25th-26th September 1944 Corporal John Walter Bentley 12th Battalion, Parachute Regiment Killed in Action on the Rhine 24th March 1945 LEST WE FORGET 'They are free-yes-but not entirely free; for they have a master, and that master is Law, which they fear much more than your subjects fear you. Whatever this master commands, they do; and his command never varies: it is never to retreat in battle, however great the odds, but always to stand firm, and to conquer or die' (from The Peloponesian War?- Herodotus 490-425BC )

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