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- John Northend - The Inspiration
- Lancaster W4192 "QR-E" 61 Squadron RAF
- European Tour
- Aarestrup Kirke, Denmark
- Aarestrup Kirke - Loss of Liberator KH410
- Aarhus Vestre Cemetery, Denmark
- Arnhem Oosterbeek Cemetery, Holland
- Basingstoke, Wortley Road Cemetery
- Bayeux War Cemetery, France
- Church Of Ireland Churchyard, Belturbet, Republic of Ireland.
- Bergen-Op-Zoom, Netherlands
- Brookwood Military Cemeteries
- Cambridge American Cemetery
- Cranwell, St Andrews Parish Church
- D-Day Gold Beach - Remnants of Mulberry Harbour
- Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof, Cannock Chase
- Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France
- Harefield St Mary's ANZAC Cemetery
- Nijmegen Jonkerbos War Cemetery
- Northwood Cemetery
- Odense Assistens Cemetery, Denmark
- Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium
- Ranville Churchyard, France
- Ration Farm Cemetery, Chapelle D'Armentieres, France
- Reichswald British War Cemetery, Germany
- Runnymede Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial
- Scopwick Burial Ground, Scopwick, Lincolnshire
- CWGC Eyes On, Hands On Volunteer Programme
- Biography Commandant Roger Baudoin French Foreign Legion
- Biography Lance Sergeant Charles Frederick Bristow GM RE
- Biography Lt HD Brotheridge Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
- Biography Lieutenant W H England No 48 RM Commando
- Buffalo LVT 'Conqueror' destroyed at Walcheren.
- Biography Lt Col J G Fitzmaurice MC Royal Tank Regiment
- Biography Flight Sergeant Josef František DFM* RAF
- Biography Sergeant Pietro Alfredo Giovetti RAFVR
- Biography Lieutenant John Grayburn VC, 2 Para
- Biography Lt Cdr Nicodeme Guilonard Netherlands Navy
- Biography Captain PH Haydon DSO No. 41 RM Commando
- Biography Private Owen Hooper, The Buffs & 4 Commando
- Biography Lieutenant Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. US Navy
- Biography Flight Lieutenant DSA Lord VC RAF
- Biography Major Robert Reid Maitland MB CHB RAMC
- Biography Lieutenant Colonel William McDowell DSO BSc RE
- Biography Flying Officer Geoff Adrian Mombrun RAFVR
- Biography Marine Byron Moses No. 41 RM Commando
- Biography Flying Officer J E Northend RAFVR
- Biography Rifleman Frank Pennefather, 3rd NZ Rifle Brigade
- Biography Lieutenant John Richard Priestley The Rifle Brigade
- Biography Staff Sjt Christopher Robinson Glider Pilot Regt., AAC.
- Biography Private AMB Roozeboom No 10 (I-A) Cdo
- Biography Sepoy Mahrup (Mahruf) Shah
- Biography Private James Stokes VC 2nd Bn KSLI
- Biography Lieutenant Colonel Leon Robert ‘Bob’ Vance, US Army Air Force.
- MA FINAL PROJECT
Deutsche Soldatenfriedhof (German Military Cemetery), Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.
HISTORY INFORMATION (from https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/4007266/cannock-chase-german-military-cemetery/)
On 16 October 1959, an agreement was concluded by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany concerning the future care of the graves of German nationals who lost their lives in the United Kingdom during the two World Wars. The agreement provided for the transfer to a central cemetery in the United Kingdom of all graves which were not situated in cemeteries and plots of Commonwealth war graves maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in situ.
Following this agreement, the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge) made arrangements to transfer the graves of German servicemen and civilian internees of both wars from scattered burial grounds to the new cemetery established at Cannock Chase.
The inauguration and dedication of this cemetery, which contains almost 5,000 German and Austrian graves, took place in the presence of Dr. Trepte, the President of Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge, on the 10th June 1967.
In the centre of the Hall of Honour, resting on a large block of stone, is a bronze sculpture of a fallen warrior, the work of the eminent German sculptor, Professor Hans Wimmer.