Just watched tonights Newsnight programme, and was interested to see Mark Urban visit the Gaza CWGC graveyards. His Great-Uncle is buried at one of them. The graves were recently damaged during the latest conflict. The CWGC are asking for compensation for repair of the damage from the IDF. See it here BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | The war graves in Gaza's battlegrounds
Sad bit of footage that. Thanks for heads up, wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Isn't Mark Urban ex-RTR? I think I remember him writing a couple of articles in Military Modelling back in the 1980s. I assume this is his Great-Uncle? CWGC :: Casualty Details ah or this one? CWGC :: Casualty Details I can't make out the cap badge on the headstone.
There is the much longer full report available now, for a week. It starts at 24:20. Very sad. BBC iPlayer - Newsnight: 24/02/2009
Sad bit of footage that. Thanks for heads up, wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Isn't Mark Urban ex-RTR? I think I remember him writing a couple of articles in Military Modelling back in the 1980s. I assume this is his Great-Uncle? CWGC :: Casualty Details I can't make out the cap badge on the headstone. Yep, top one L/Sgt Walter Holmes. I think, from memory, Isle of Wight Rifles. So Hampshire Regiment would fit. His biog from the BBC site. Mark Urban is Newsnight's Diplomatic Editor. He came to the programme after being Middle East Correspondent for BBC News, a general reporter for Newsnight and Defence Correspondent of The Independent newspaper. Before that he also worked behind the camera as an assistant producer on various programmes. Mark's years on Newsnight have taken him to many of the biggest foreign news stories of the past decade: the Gulf War; 1991 Coup in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian war; Middle East peace process; Russian as well as Israeli elections and the conflict in Kosovo. He is the author of several books including "Big Boys' Rules: The Secret Struggle Against the IRA" and "UK Eyes Alpha: The Inside Story of British Intelligence". He was born in London and is a graduate of the London School of Economics. Mark also served in the Army - for nine months as a regular officer and four years in the Territorials.
That was a good report. From what I remember he's a keen wargamer as well, and has written quite a few books relating to military history. Mark Urban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was an excellent report. Made a great point about how Jews and Muslims, Officers and Privates all laid out together in the Cemetary. The guys who tended to it seemed to have done great work tending to the cemetary. Must be really disheartening for them to see that sort of damage done to it.
