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Tournai Community Cemetery, Belgium, WW1
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Potty | Report | 5 Mar 2008 16:01 |
I found the details of my father's brother's grave on the CWGC site and visited it two years ago. |
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Nickydownsouth | Report | 5 Mar 2008 14:05 |
Margaret ,his cause of death was on the " Memorial certificate" I printed out from the CWGC. |
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Madmeg | Report | 5 Mar 2008 00:26 |
Just to say, my great Uncle Charlie is buried locally and the chap at our council offices assured me that his grave is regularly tended and the headstone cleaned and made secure by employees of the war graves commission! |
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Madmeg | Report | 5 Mar 2008 00:24 |
Keith, thanks, I have found four relatives from this site, one at Turnai, one in Greece (Selonika), one drowned at sea, reference the cenotaph at Portsmouth, and one buried locally whom I knew about but the certificate was still nice to have. |
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Madmeg | Report | 5 Mar 2008 00:22 |
Keith, thanks, I have found four relatives from this site, one at Turnai, one in Greece (Selonika), one drowned at sea, reference the cenotaph at Portsmouth, and one buried locally whom I knew about but the certificate was still nice to have. |
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Nickydownsouth | Report | 28 Feb 2008 13:18 |
Thanks for that Teresa, I didn`t have a clue about that, thought the graves were just left untended due to being abroad.......... I will take a look. |
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TeresainWirral | Report | 28 Feb 2008 09:24 |
All the graves are tended by the CWGC. |
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Nickydownsouth | Report | 27 Feb 2008 23:59 |
Margaret, I found my gr grandfathers younger brother on the CWGC site, he died in action in 1916 and is buried in Sailly le Sac Cemetrey france , it dawned on me when I found it, that probably no one has ever visited there, made a mental note if I ever get the chance to pay a visit, his father was already dead and his elderley mother died the following year, its so sad to think of them hundreds of miles from home and no one to tend a grave..... his certificate says he died from his injuries, injured many times before.....he was only in his thirties. |
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Madmeg | Report | 27 Feb 2008 23:26 |
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KeithInFujairah | Report | 24 Feb 2008 08:51 |
Margaret, have you checked the CWGC site for information on him? If he was a war casualty, there should be information on him and his burial place. |
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Madmeg | Report | 24 Feb 2008 02:55 |
Does anyone know how I can find out if my relative was buried here - I believe he was. And the reference number of his grave. |