War Grave Hunting
As we're volunteers for TWGPP, The War Graves Photographic Project, Samuel and I made the most of the dry weather today and went to Rothes to hunt down some more war graves.
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The old graves in the cemetery are all black due to the vapour that is given off by the nearby distillery. If my missing 2 are down there it will be difficult to find them!!! ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYycHyUqU7RKu8ElbbGrheModQ0XcMqbBIkHwQewIdhTRkl-cI780DRveA2Yj7lg8s9dPQmyvMFKbVunvWJ5SbyIx8PLrvIMv98w6MjKq6UNgBMIuk5xWVm45PFm4mMeIuy1vSvHaCgWte/s400/Cross.jpg)
Believe it or not we only had 7 to find but 2 still managed to elude us!!!
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Some are easy to find as they are official war grave headstones
but others are on family headstones which mean reading them all!!!!
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ReplyDeleteGreat to see DN involved.
ReplyDeleteWar graves normally have the standard CWGC headstone, however in a lot of cases in the UK a private headstone was used. The grave is still considered a war grave and cared for by the CWGC. This may explain why it was difficult to locate the remanining two graves.
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