Different or Unusual Headstones/Memorials /Inscriptions

Discussion in 'War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research' started by spidge, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Michele welcome
    I have updated the photos
    also there is post dedicated to them here
    I have bumped the thread for you so you can review it and add any further info.

    http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/47937-wren-ellen-saunders-parents/?hl=%2Bellen+%2Brose+%2Bsaunders

    regards
    Clive
     
  2. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Nothing different about the CWGC headstone but i thought the wifes headstone was a nice touch to match her husbands.

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    LANCASTER, JOHN ASPLIN

    Rank:

    Sergeant

    Trade:

    Air Bomber

    Service No:

    1455345

    Date of Death:

    14/03/1944

    Age:

    20

    Regiment/Service:

    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

    Grave Reference

    Class B. Grave 208.

    Cemetery

    GRANGE-OVER-SANDS CEMETERY

    Additional Information:
    Son of Richard Gilbert and Beatrice Mary Lancaster, of Grange-over-Sands.
     
  3. BereniceUK

    BereniceUK Well-Known Member

    This memorial to Joško Sabotičevi is in Žale General Cemetery, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but I don't know if he buried there or if it's his family's grave which includes a memorial to him. I showed someone my photos while in Ljubljana and, apparently, the inscription says that Joško Sabotičevi was a WW2 pilot who died in Serbia. Whether in combat or accident and in whose air force I don't know.

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  4. Heimbrent

    Heimbrent Well-Known Member

    It roughly reads:
     
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  5. BereniceUK

    BereniceUK Well-Known Member

    Thank you so much. I didn't expect someone who knows Slovene here!
     
  6. Heimbrent

    Heimbrent Well-Known Member

    I don't. I can deduce some because I speak Russian and some Polish.
    Friend of mine helped with the translation :)
     
  7. BereniceUK

    BereniceUK Well-Known Member

    The Chinatown Memorial in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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    "The bronze statues of the railway worker and the World War II Veteran represent the sacrifices made by Chinese Canadians in building a united and Prosperous Canada."

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  9. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    When looking in Ambleside cemetery and armed with my casualty list I first thought that CWGC had missed one.

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    But then coming home and searching for the chap I find it wasn't a missed casualty.

    GARSIDE, NORMAN


    Rank: Private Service No: 3600150 Date of Death: 25/09/1944 Age: 22 Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders 2nd Bn. Grave Reference: IV. E. 10. Cemetery: MIERLO WAR CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Samuel Frederick and Annie Jane Garside, of Ambleside, Westmorland.

    But in my eye what a very nice headstone and at least his parents and family had a headstone to pay there respects.

    Photo of his headstone from Findagrave.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=garside&GSiman=1&GScid=2207286&GRid=18044917&

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  10. hucks216

    hucks216 Member

    A memorial at KZ Flossenbürg to a 1st Lt Eugene Francis Levens and 8 others who were shot in the camp.

    He and the others are also mentioned on the SOE memorial plaque located outside the camp cell building

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  11. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    St John the Evangelist churchyard, Newtimber, West Sussex
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    This is WW1, but I found this ‘headstone’ rather intriguing. It is made of metal, presumably cast iron, is curved in shape and bears the badges of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Navy. The inscription reads:

    SACRED
    TO THE MEMORY OF
    TWO SONS
    KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR
    ONE LIES HERE
    ONE IN JUTLAND BAY
    GOD BLESS THEIR WORK
    WHO LOVED ME
    AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME

    It is particularly curious as, the ‘headstone’ itself bears no name. There was no obvious sign of a kerb or border around the grave which may have carried an inscription, although undergrowth and nettles prevented a close inspection.

    Research shows the grave to be that of Captain Henry Hall Griffith (RFC) who was killed in an aeroplane accident on the River Thames on 2 November 1917.
    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/659508/GRIFFITH,%20HENRY%20HALL

    The ‘other son’ is his brother, Midshipman William Llewelyn Griffith (RN), who was killed in action when HMS Indefatigable was sunk on 31 May 1916 at the Battle of Jutland.
    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2866097/GRIFFITH,%20WILLIAM%20LLEWELYN
     
  12. BereniceUK

    BereniceUK Well-Known Member

    Not a wartime death, but it look like an attempt to provide a CWGC-style headstone. It's in St. Barra's Cemetery, Christmas Island, Nova Scotia. Edit - Apologies, it's a standard Canadian headstone for service personnel, not unusual or different at all.
     

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  13. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    General Richard Harte Keatinge
    Not WW2 or even WW1 but you don't often come across VC winners. Buried at Hills Cemetery, Horsham, West Sussex
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  14. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Chap here died of wounds from WW1 11 years after being injured
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  15. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Cheltenham Chronicle & Gloucestershire Graphic, Saturday, August 13, 1927

    GLENCROSS – On August 4th, at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, Lieut. Leslie H Glencross, late 2nd Essex Regt., of “Bostraze”, Harrow-on-the-Hill, from wounds received in action on the Somme, July 1st, 1916.
     
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  16. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Abney Park Cemetery.Reported to CWGC
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    JACKSON, THOMAS CHARLES
    Rank:
    Serjeant
    Service No:
    6348156
    Date of Death:
    22/08/1944
    Age:
    27
    Regiment/Service:
    Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
    attd. 13th Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
    Grave Reference:
    Sec. I.5. Grave RN.60587.
    Cemetery:
    ABNEY PARK CEMETERY
    Additional Information:
    Son of Thomas and Annie Jackson, of Shoreditch; husband of Violet Elizabeth Jackson, of Shoreditch.
     
  17. BereniceUK

    BereniceUK Well-Known Member

    Howard Tijou, aged 10, a Lusitania victim. He was a British citizen residing in Toronto.

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  18. Pat Atkins

    Pat Atkins Well-Known Member

    I came across this stone recently in the village graveyard in rural Lincs where my father-in-law is buried, and thought others might find it as poignant as I did.

    Cheers, Pat.
     

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  19. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Rank:
    Civilian
    Date of Death:
    07/09/1940
    Age:
    20
    Regiment/Service:
    Civilian War Dead
    Reporting Authority:
    WEST HAM, COUNTY BOROUGH
    Additional Information:
    Nurse. Daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Credland, of Sturton-by-Stow, Lincoln. Died at Queen Mary's Hospital.

    BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1940: London blitzed by German bombers

    http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=8
     
  20. Pat Atkins

    Pat Atkins Well-Known Member

    An interesting link - thanks CL 1. My aunt lived in London in the war and, in later life, only seemed able to talk about it in apparently trivial terms (her account of a V2 which landed near her, for example, centred around her losing a good hat in the blast); I realise now it was probably her way of coping with some pretty unpleasant memories. Easy to overlook the sacrifices of civilians.

    Cheers, Pat.
     

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