Venafro French Cemetery

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  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    On our trip last month ,as the CWGC, German and American Cemeteries we also visited this French one.
    The Cemetery is divided into two parts , Christian and Muslim.
    It doesn't seem that well looked after.
    On some of the crosses the name plates had fallen off, they are only glued on.
    Most of the Muslim headstones needed a repaint .
    Some more views of the Muslim graves.
    Men from Tunisia, Algeria and Morrocco.
     

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  2. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Good photos mate; a couple of mine to add to them.

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  3. Owen

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    This Memorial is on the opposite side of the road to the Cemetery.
    Sorry it not too clear.
     

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  4. Arsenal vg-33

    Arsenal vg-33 Member

    Thank you Owen and Paul Reed for the photos! It is not often one sees the French military cemeteries at all, I wish more could be seen, and there locations too. As for the headstones, they appear to be a marbled type of stone, so a cleaning rather than a painting-over should do the trick.

    A quick search revealed an interesting pdf file on the Franco-Italian agreements concerning the national jurisdiction of French and Italian military cemeteries in each country. A nice list of locations and from what wars the graves date follows the text. It is worth a look:

    http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/4/4/00006159.pdf

    Thanks again Gents, hope to see more French cemetery images in the future.
     
  5. CROONAERT

    CROONAERT Ipsissimus

  6. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

  7. Owen

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    Google Earth Co-ords.
    41°29'22.44"N
    14° 3'18.60"E
     
  8. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Photos courtesy of Rotherfield
    This is the French cemetery at Venafro which is about 8 miles East of Cassino, it holds Muslim troops as well as Christian.
     

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  9. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    The name Venafro rang a bell with me so I went back to my Diaries and found the following:

    April 7 : Larry and I attended a Jewish Passover service organised by the South African Forces at the Junction of the Vanairo/Venafro roads.


    The full story is here:
    BBC - WW2 People's War - Monte Cassino, March to May 1944

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  10. dbf

    dbf Moderatrix MOD

    Photo of French memorial courtesy of Rotherfield
    This is the French monument on the road from Venafro to Cardito, does anybody have any idea what went on there so many French soldiers lost their lives in this area (109)
    Regards
    Mike
     

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  11. Owen

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  12. stolpi

    stolpi Well-Known Member

    Thanks for that! Very much appreciated :cool:
     

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