Hotton Cemetery

Owen · 22-01-2008, 11:05 AM

I'll be getting the RAAF graves for spidge when I'm over there.
Anyone else need any photos from HOTTON WAR CEMETERY ?
If any American members would like photos from their cemeteries let me know and I'll see what I can do.

4th wilts · 22-01-2008, 11:27 AM

wonderful to see all those cemeteries so well looked after,i remember visiting 1 or 2 during my visits to the cycle races held every spring in belgium and north france.if you get a chance,go over and watch.yours,lee.

Gotthard Heinrici · 22-01-2008, 11:50 AM

I'd like to echo Lee's post about the Cemetaries being so well maintained. The staff of these places do a wonderful job.

51highland · 22-01-2008, 07:06 PM

Like all the cemeteries it is extremely well kept and a peaceful location.

AndyBaldEagle · 23-01-2008, 08:07 PM

Owen
When are you going over? I may have a request for some of the Airborne boys, but Im afraid there mayb be a few. Please PM me
Thanks

Andy B

Owen · 23-01-2008, 10:51 PM

PM sent Andy.

Owen · 23-02-2008, 09:09 PM

Geoff
45 RAAF graves done
Andy.
105 Airbourne graves done.

Thighs ached for 2 days afterwards.

Paul Reed · 23-02-2008, 09:19 PM

Welcome back Owen - we look forward to your report in due course!

Owen · 23-02-2008, 09:45 PM

Here's an odd one.
Listed as an Unkown in the Wiltshires BUT checking in War Diaries & on Geoff Search Engine Wilts has no casualties on that day.

Owen · 23-02-2008, 09:55 PM

Here's a couple of general views and one of the Cross of Sacrifice.
Although we had temperatures down to minus 10 degrees C at night the heather underneath the Cross was alive with Honey bees.

22-01-2008, 11:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,595	Hotton cemetery. I'll be getting the RAAF graves for spidge when I'm over there. Anyone else need any photos from HOTTON WAR CEMETERY ? If any American members would like photos from their cemeteries let me know and I'll see what I can do.

22-01-2008, 11:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,468	I'd like to echo Lee's post about the Cemetaries being so well maintained. The staff of these places do a wonderful job. __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

23-01-2008, 08:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
AndyBaldEagle Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Essex Posts: 188	Owen When are you going over? I may have a request for some of the Airborne boys, but Im afraid there mayb be a few. Please PM me Thanks Andy B __________________ 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 )

23-02-2008, 09:09 PM	#7 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,595	Geoff 45 RAAF graves done Andy. 105 Airbourne graves done. Thighs ached for 2 days afterwards. Last edited by Owen; 23-02-2008 at 09:11 PM.

23-02-2008, 09:19 PM	#8 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France Posts: 2,853	Welcome back Owen - we look forward to your report in due course! __________________ The WW2 Society: Remembering those from Britain & The Commonwealth who served 1939-45 - http://www.battlefieldsww2.50megs.com/ww2_society.htm

22-01-2008, 11:27 AM	#2 (permalink)
4th wilts Discharged Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: wessex Posts: 1,043	wonderful to see all those cemeteries so well looked after,i remember visiting 1 or 2 during my visits to the cycle races held every spring in belgium and north france.if you get a chance,go over and watch.yours,lee.

23-01-2008, 10:51 PM	#6 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,595	PM sent Andy.

23-02-2008, 09:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,595	Here's an odd one. Listed as an Unkown in the Wiltshires BUT checking in War Diaries & on Geoff Search Engine Wilts has no casualties on that day.

23-02-2008, 09:55 PM	#10 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,595	Here's a couple of general views and one of the Cross of Sacrifice. Although we had temperatures down to minus 10 degrees C at night the heather underneath the Cross was alive with Honey bees.

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