Sunday, August 12, 2018

CWGC Bandariabagh Cem., Lucknow

Pte J. Scaife, Royal Welch Fusiliers, died July 1920, aged 22 and
 Sergt Sidney Down, Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
 died June 1920, aged 29
Visited Bandariabagh Cem with a cousin on a very warm
March 2018 morning
CWGC graves in the Bandariabagh Cemetery,  Lucknow -- March 2018 Several graves with the original headstones in good condition were
destroyed just for uniformity. Before I came to know of of the CWGC plan I had photographed century old graves where the headstones, 
deliberately uprooted. 
lay in the dirt. 
I couldn't help wondering what happened to uniformity when I
spotted some graves that had been
repaired with the original sandstone 
headstone retained. That is what could have been a part of the plan -- to retain headstones except where 
there was serious weathering and damage. Some graves in the old Pines Cemetery, Nainital (name taken from the google satellite map)
also had CWGC graves where the original headstones were retained.
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No 7259 
PTE RICHARD A.H.
BRICKWOOD
1S Bn Oxfordshire L.I.
who died at Lucknow on the
1st July 1905
Aged 21 years 3 months
(This grave was untouched
in March 2018)
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Pte W.E Woodward Middlesex Reg. , died Nov 1916
Cpl Robert J Dixon, Middlesex Reg. died Jan 1917
This isn't the only post with
CWGC graves!
 


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