Original CWGC Cemetery Photographs

An original grave photo for Captain T C M Taberer along with some letters relating to his grave - he is buried in Milan War Cemetery

Alistair

 

While tidying up my casualty paybook thread I thought I'd read the photos to this (as well as a few new ones) - sorry its a bit of a dump rather than an organised post - also some of these were posted direct so still show but I thought I may as well go the whole hog in adding these

Alistair

 

The following photos came as a group and relate to the Gurkhas

Alistair

 

Becklingen War Cemetery 1945 - looking at how the crosses are placed I'm guessing they were still completing the Cemetery at this point

 

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Seven CWGC photo albums ww1 mostly online click the first column reference number and select pdf option,hope it is of interest to some

Thanks

Kyle

 

CWGC Archive have now made available contemporary photographs from their negatives collection and appears to show many (if not all of their WW2 sites) some with pre granite headstones

http://archive.cwgc.org/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=CWGC/9/1/1

Example ;-Wormhoudt 2 of 5 available




Kyle

 

A couple more

 

A snapshot of an Italian field burial (so not quite a CWGC grave) of a British soldier - 4463869 G Whitfield 8th DLI 29/6/42 - the inscription matches his grave concentration report

 

An early photo of Tripoli War Cemetery, a few names visible, Smith RA, Bradford RAOC (Although the F seems to have got lost) & Oliver RAF as well as some unknown Sailors



The below 4 relate to a pair of Sailors Durant & Lavercombe who were killed at HMS Drake in Air Raids and are buried in Plymouth (Weson Mill) Cemetery - considering this is an established British Civilian cemetery rather than a field burial the ground looks really rough and not what I'd expect, almost like a quarry

 

Nederweert Cemetery (the Netherlands) & before it became the official cemetery. Graves were seperated around the region if I'm correct.

 

Unknown and 41018 John Dodson Gibson NZEF

 

Gunner HG Rose of the RNZA

 

Regarding Grave Markers and what they were make from:
One of the oldest members of the Battery came to me the other day with these two pictures of Bill’s grave, which he asked me to send to you. Woodhouse is his name and he was in Bills Troop and if you ever visited the Battery, which I cannot remember you doing, you would have been bound to have met him, for he was an institution. He is a handyman and he made the cross, painted it and when the wagon lines were near Florence he and Richard Wells always saw that there were flowers on the grave and he took these photo’s when he was there one day.
The cemetery is one of the prettiest battle cemeteries that I have ever seen. It is on the left of the main road as it climbs out of Florence in a valley green and grey with Cyprus and olive trees. It is not far from where Bill was killed.
Killed La Pietra north of Florence 2nd Sept 1944 along with three others when the Survey Jeep triggered a nest of Teller mines..

The photos were never found, presumably they were sent to his wife who was long dead when I was given his letters to his mother with which to to compile a book. It has never been published.

Despite the truly brilliant help from the members on the forum I never found the actual location of the Arrow Route Cemetery in Florence although the architects plans etc came to light.

Attached is a clip from a photo taken at Chouat German Military Hospital in Tunisia 1943 after it was captured by the 6th Gordons. German Grave Markers are clearly stacked close by.

 

1683205 Bdr James Beasleigh - 105 HAA Regiment 15/3/45 - now buried in Brussels Town Cemetery - his RA Casualty card has him died of wounds, which the casualty lists show as received 8/3/45

 

14298708 Pte E B Ludlow, 2nd Gloucester's 30/7/44

 

7931396 Tpr E G Yeomans 50 RTR 22/7/42

 

Gunner D C Prickett 1446177 235 Heavy AA Battery, killed 7/9/41 - below show 2 early crosses, not sure which came first or if these are the same grave or if he was relocated

 

1098278 A R Helliwell - Navigator of Halifax HR 788 of 51 Squadron 12/6/43