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| September 2009
at Ypres: branch Standard
Bearer, Jimmy Rowe, and in front of him, Yves LeCuziat MBE, one of our members from Normandy. The Padre in the background is Robin White, Chairman of the Wells
branch, Somerset |
September
2009 at Ypres: the Avon
Glen Pipe and Drum Band and Standard Bearers just about to march off to the Menin
Gate, for the Last Post ceremony. Robin White led the service of
remembrance |
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| September
2009: Tyne Cot Memorial,
near Ypres in Belgium. Robin White, Chairman of the Wells Branch and Rodney Curtis, Central
Brittany Branch Chairman, laid wreaths on behalf of their branches |
The laying of the wreaths was
followed by a short silence and Act of Remembrance for all who fell in the Great War. This
photograph was given by kind permission of Virginia Mayo of Associated Press |
Tyne Cot was, in fact,
a barn, so named by the Northumberland Fusiliers, and stood near a level crossing on the
Passchendaele to Broodseinde road. It was captured by the 2nd Australian Division on 4 October
1917 in the advance on Passchendaele and the German blockhouse; it and three others remain in
the cemetery to this day. With nearly 12,000 graves, it is now the largest Commonwealth War
Cemetery in the world in terms of burials. More than 8,000 are unidentified. At the suggestion
of King George V, who visited the Cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the
original blockhouse
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| 2008: Beuzeville Cemetery, where there are 4 war graves |
2008: St Nazaire, sinking of the Lancastria |
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| 2008: St Nazaire, sinking of the Lancastria |
2008: Sannerville Church, near the Goodwood Memorial |
