http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/75424/BODELWYDDAN%20(ST.%20MARGARET)%20CHURCHYARD
The Canadian casualties are mainly victims of the 1918-19 influenza who
were based at a nearby repatriation camp.
Pte Drips was in fact American, from Iowa, according to the CWGC casualty
record.
Piers
On Thursday, 24 September 2015, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> These are from WWI. But there are also many from WWII in war cemeteries
around Europe. Many Canadians and other Commonwealth soldiers fought in the
world wars. In Arnhem, where I used to visit the war cemetery every year,
there are graves of pilots from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, all of whom
served in the RAF.
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>> On 24 Sep 2015, at 02:30, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Why Canadian war graves in Wales?
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http://www.frozenlight.eu/wales_sept2015/content/20150914-_DSF7920_large.html
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>> Chuck Norcutt
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>> On 9/23/2015 3:32 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>>> Last week, I spent a couple of days in North Wales, including a drive
from Bodelwyddan not too far from the England border all the way west to
Holyhead on the Irish sea. The weather was rainy and windy and cloudy, just
the ticket for getting some photographs to show the place. Despite the
weather, this is a nice corner of the world:
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>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/wales_sept2015/index.html
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>>> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
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>>> Nathan
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>>> Nathan Wajsman
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>>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
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http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
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