Remembrance Day - Remembering a local war grave

Thanks for the info Dave. Worthy Down is very close to me and it is nice to be able to piece together these items of local history.

it is a strange but peaceful feeling when u find raf headstones. i maintain about 17 and they are intresting to read and i do like to take a min to remember if it wernt for some of these people we know what would have happened

[IMG]/community/64823=3689-Harrogate cemetery800.jpg[/img] I am sorry this was not taken this November but Easter last year of Harrogate CWGC cemetery. A long way from Canada.

Richard wrote:

[IMG]/community/64823=3689-Harrogate cemetery800.jpg[/img] I am sorry this was not taken this November but Easter last year of Harrogate CWGC cemetery. A long way from Canada.

Thanks for this Richard, nice to see the tulips which are a common link with Canada, In the autumn of 1945, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs in appreciation for the safe haven that members of Dutch royal family received during the World War II in Ottawa and in recognition of the role which Canadian troops played in the liberation of the Netherlands. The tulips are widely know to celibrate the birth or Princess Margriet who, was probably only royal baby ever born in North America. To ensure her Dutch citizenship, the Canadian government ceded a room at the Ottawa Civic Hospital to the Netherlands which allowed the baby to be born a Dutch citizen on Dutch soil in the safe haven of Canada.

Incredible, nice bit of history.

I will as soon as I can get around to it add the CWGC cemetery onto my website. I was in Harrogate visiting my son and his family last Easter and did a great visit to RAF Riccal. The next day I passed the cemetery and saw it was a CWGC.

Then I realised it was the main cemetery for Canadians in Yorkshire. I was given Heroes of Bomber Command Yorkshire, a very good book but boy the casualty lists after a night over Germany And this went on night after night. No wonder Harrogate CWGC cemetery is so large.

Richard

you may find this of use from Vetrans Affairs Canada www.veterans.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?sou...als/ukmem/stonesfall

3 Airmens graves in Desborough cemetery & a more recent one from the Afganistan conflict.

Saw this last year in Gloucester, photographed today 26-01-2011.

buccaneer66;65116 wrote:

3 Airmens graves in Desborough cemetery.

To go with the above graves.

Wellington X HZ484 taken off from Desborough 27th Jan 1944 at 18:55
Crashed circa 22:45 near manor house Artingworth 13 miles N from the centre of Nottingham.

Crew
S/L J H Kirton
F/O D E Blunt
F/O F W Jones
Sgt J Orr
Sgt A L T Butler

Kirton & Blunt are 2 of the graves.

Copied from Royal Air force Bobmer command Losses Volume 7 by W R Chorley Although Arthingworth is north of Northampton not Nottingham.