Thanks for the reminders, in more senses than one, Donald. We stood in the
cemetery at Marfaux three years ago, with my wife's uncle, who until then
had no idea where his father (1/6th Black Watch) had died (when his son was
three years old). There was no marked grave, but the date, the progress of
the 2nd battle of the Marne, and the terrain were all circumstantially
definitive. His father had died in the fields and woods across the main
road, along with about 800 others, a third of them unnamed casualties (as
you will have seen) on 20 July 1918. www.cwgc.org does not list the regiment
for unnamed graves - you have to visit to see how many there are, and the
Seaforths and Black Watch stand out. All of them part-time Territorials, who
had volunteered for "Home Defence" to replace the regulars posted to France.
I will locate my own album and post it.
--
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Donald
Sent: 01 October 2008 15:19
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] New gallery on home page
Just a quick note to say I have my summer shots up on www.skelpitheid.com
and to give you a warning.
It's a 'quick and dirty' job, so the gallery just uses the same template as
the last time, which is too restrictive for the number of shots, really. So
it takes a little time to load and will probably require scrolling. The
thumbnails are at the bottom, and are small (50px).
Mousing over the images will float a caption. Before anyone jumps on it, the
template won't allow me to use apostrophes in the captions, so I've missed
them out to get it to work.
If anyone sees any other flaws, I'd appreciate the heads-up. Most of the
images are some way under 200k, at this size making them smaller is tricky
in terms of artefacts (wanna argue about that spelling?).
D.
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