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20 Jun 2015 11:24 #71
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According to Wiki Swinderby has always been Lincolnshire, and Im suprised the grave isnt a CWGC one.
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20 Jun 2015 11:47 #72
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canberra ~ my understanding was that it is a family grave which may not fully comply with the GWGC principles.
The Commission's principles:
Each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial
Headstones and memorials should be permanent
Headstones should be uniform
There should be no distinction made on account of military or civil rank, race or creed
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According to Wiki Swinderby has always been Lincolnshire, and Im suprised the grave isnt a CWGC one.
canberra ~ my understanding was that it is a family grave which may not fully comply with the GWGC principles.
The Commission's principles:
Each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial
Headstones and memorials should be permanent
Headstones should be uniform
There should be no distinction made on account of military or civil rank, race or creed
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20 Jun 2015 12:07 #73
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Many families made their own arrangements for burial with their own headstone. The CWGC are not responsible for them but they have the locations on their reports for each cemetery so they can be found as they go around doing inspections. I think they are limited in what they can do because they do not own the grave but can do basic tidying and report to others. I passed on details of one that was face down on the ground to the local CWGC supervisor, he reported to the council and they rectified. It gets more complicated with ones that are not official war graves. I found this one rather sad, beautiful memorial erected by his colleagues but it is not a 'war grave' because he was a merchant seaman who died of disease and no one seems to be interested.
William Matheson, HMNZ Hospital Ship No.2, SS Marama
William Matheson, HMNZ Hospital Ship No.2, SS Marama
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20 Jun 2015 16:33 #74
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Dave, Sorry no, I have never heard about this Jesuit Priest from Thame before. But thank you for the links to see what that Hero achieved. A true fete in itself ! I will ask at Thame's Town Hall for further information concerning this Chapel.
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Paul, did you ever hear about the Jesuit Priest in Thame who helped to build a RC Chapel in Changi Prison Singapore after he had been working on the Railway with their remembrance day being at 2:30PM on August 15th when they heard the news that the war was over ?
Mr Hugh Simon-Thwaites S.J. had assisted in the chapel construction and had become the chapel gardener during 1944/5.
He had written a very informative 75 page booklet about his war memoirs that he presented to me over lunch during August 1979.
The chapel had been dismantled when the prison was demolished and shipped to Australia where it was reconstructed at the Royal Military College Duntroon as a National Memorial to over 35,000 Australian Prisoners of War.
www.nationalcapital.gov.au/index.php?opt...d=2531:changi-chapel
www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/asia_singapore3.html
Dave, Sorry no, I have never heard about this Jesuit Priest from Thame before. But thank you for the links to see what that Hero achieved. A true fete in itself ! I will ask at Thame's Town Hall for further information concerning this Chapel.
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20 Jun 2015 20:20 #75
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Paul, Hugh Simon-Thwaites had been located at the original RC Church in Brookes Lane before it was replaced by the new church next to the school.
His war memoirs book had been published by St James' Bookshop, 22 George Street, London. W1H 5RB. ( ISBN 1 898451 22 2 )
The last contact number I had for the bookshop had been 0181 363 5667 which dates it.
His war memoirs book had been published by St James' Bookshop, 22 George Street, London. W1H 5RB. ( ISBN 1 898451 22 2 )
The last contact number I had for the bookshop had been 0181 363 5667 which dates it.
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Took these today in Rosehill Cemetery, Oxford.
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Took these today in Rosehill Cemetery, Oxford.
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A couple that I took that day. There are 5 very close together, the main white one's(4) shown in the first photograph, though one(5th) is laid down broken. All RAF and ALL very young.
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Look at the first name shown, and the last. ? Brothers, Relations... Either way a sad loss for them and their families. RIP.
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Look at the first name shown, and the last. ? Brothers, Relations... Either way a sad loss for them and their families. RIP.
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Saw this Hero's grave in St James the Great' churchyard, Aston Abbotts, Bucks. This was last week while looking for something else.
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Saw this Hero's grave in St James the Great' churchyard, Aston Abbotts, Bucks. This was last week while looking for something else.
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I wonder how Sgt Humphreys was killed?
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