Brighton St Dunstans

Hi All

Most of you will know that I collect Headstone for all the Airborne Forces of WW2... But today with Andybaldeagle I found some ones that I've not seen about they belong to St Dunstans so I took a good few of them.... Here is the list of some of them

DLI
Parachute Reg just 1
Border Reg
RLR
Police
Guards

Cheers
Tom

 

Interesting. Are they CWGC headstones?

 

Hi Drew,

No they are not but they were at some point Soldiers...

Cheers
Tom
PS here are some

 

Ah, I take it they died after the war then of natural causes?

 

Hi Drew

This is what there site says..... An independent future for blind ex-Service men and women...

And here is the link
St Dunstan's Homepage - St. Dunstan's

Cheers
Tom

 

Hi All,

Who wants WW2 VC I found one in Brighton the other day ...In fact here you go

Cheers
Tom

 

Taken from Google Streetview, this is St Dunstan's.

 

When I moved back to Brighton in the late 90s I often used to meet and have a chat in the street with a St Dustan's man, Taffy. He'd been shot in the head and blinded aged 19 in Burma, and yet to talk to was as cheery a soul as you'd ever meet. He had a lot of good words to say about the place. When I drive past I'm reminded of its good work; also, what a fantastic view it must have along the coast. Which is a bit ironic, considering.

Cheers, Pat