Sunday, March 18, 2018

Pte Robert Rose died 1904

In Loving Memory of
No 5196 PTE ROBERT ROSE
THE ROYAL DRAGOONS
WHO DIED AT LUCKNOW
ON THE 5TH MAY 1904

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GONE FROM US BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
NEVER SHALL THY MEMORY FADE
SWEETEST THOUGHTS SHALL EVER LINGER
AROUND THE SPOT WHERE THOU ART LAID
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ERECTED BY HIS COMRADES
**(Photo Fibis.org)
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After receiving the death certificate I had
this grave in mind while I photographed
the other graves which are all on this blog,
but failed to find it. There were several headstones,
all in good condition, that had been deliberately
uprooted, lying half buried in the mud. I later discovered
that the same graves were being reconstructed
as per the CWGC's plan for graves worldwide.

 Strange really, considering the fact that all these graves
had uniform headstones that were in perfectly
good condition! The CWGC should have concentrated
on the graves that had actually started crumbling.
The same was done in a Naini Tal cemetery!
Sometime back Dick Fanthome had left a comment

in answer to a question I had posed. I cannot recall
what it was


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