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shabu Cheffin

Geregistreerd op: 7-2-2006 Berichten: 3096 Woonplaats: Hoek van Holland
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Geplaatst: 30 Jul 2017 13:42 Onderwerp: Back from the Front: Tracking down WW1 grave markers |
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Manicured lawns and gleaming white headstones now welcome visitors to the World War One cemeteries of France and Belgium. But a century ago, these soldiers' graves were marked with simple wooden crosses. What happened to them and who are the people tracking them down?
On the wall of St Anne's Church in Sale, Greater Manchester, hangs one such cross. Made from two pieces of wood nailed together, with a sharp, earth-stained point, it has a metal strip reading: "UNKNOWN BRITISH SOLDIER".
It was one of hundreds of thousands of markers indicating the graves of Commonwealth soldiers all along the Western Front. Some are cracked and water-damaged. Many have woodworm. Some even have the original Somme mud varnished on to them.
Others are ornate, hand-carved and painted, made in the field by comrades, often from scrap wood or old packing crates, and bearing personal inscriptions. Aviators' graves were often marked by propellers.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-40446229
En de website
http://thereturned.co.uk/ _________________ If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied
-Rudyard Kipling-
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