One of just a handful of headstones in a German First World War cemetery with over 17,000 burials that commemorates a Jewish soldier.

📍Fricourt German Military Cemetery 🇫🇷

William Henry Ensor is named on a family headstone in my hometown, Nuneaton. Living in Canada when war broke out, he likely lied about his age and enlisted with the Canadian Infantry in November 1914, giving his age as 19 years and 1 month.

📍Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

Flight Lieutenant Richard Burke AFC was a pilot instructor based with No. 9 Elementary Flying Training School at RAF Ansty. He was killed when the Tiger Moth aircraft on which he was flying struck a tree. His pupil, LAC Ronald Burt, also died.

📍Ansty (St James) Churchyard 🇬🇧

Company Serjeant Major John Wager, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed on this day in 1915. A local newspaper reported that the 31 year old had served in the South African War and was likely to be commissioned.

📍Ypres Town Cemetery 🇧🇪

Flight Sergeant Douglas Stunt, RAF, was lost over Hungary with the crew of his Wellington bomber. From 1942, his unit, 128 Squadron, served in the North African and Italian campaigns.

📍Budapest War Cemetery 🇭🇺

The Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial was unveiled on this day in 2005, honouring the thousands of people murdered and shot into the river by Arrow Cross Party militiamen during the Second World War.

📍Budapest 🇭🇺

The Governor,
Malta.

To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history.

George R.I.
April 15th, 1942. 

📍Fort St Elmo - National War Museum. Valletta, Malta 🇲🇹

I’ve not seen many war graves for civilians. This one belongs to J. Pobjoy, who was attached to the 1st Army Postal Company, Royal Engineers. Where I have seen civilians commemorated, the headstone corners are usually clipped.

📍Calais Southern Cemetery 🇫🇷

Lance Serjeant Bright DCM MM, Coldstream Guards, was originally buried in Wavrin German Cemetery. The award of his Military Medal was announced in the London Gazette in March 1918, and that of his Distinguished Conduct Medal in May 1918.

📍 Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery 🇫🇷

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Magnay, Royal Fusiliers, was killed commanding 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment. In July 1916, he took part in the actions at Delville Wood, Longueval, and Beaumont Hamel and was Mentioned in Despatches three times.

📍Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery 🇫🇷

The guided tour will explore the well maintained CWGC Commonwealth, Polish, and German plots, as well as a number of the cemetery’s scattered war graves, including that of a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot.

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War Graves Week 2026
Nuneaton (Oaston Road) Cemetery Tour
Saturday 16 May, 2026, at 10.00am.

Join us for a free tour at Oaston Road Cemetery, the final resting place of twelve First World War casualties and 76 from the Second World War. 1/2

Two Cumbrian territorials resting side by side in France. Both Robert Briggs and Robert Burns were employed in the mining industry before enlisting in 1914, when they were aged just 17. They were both killed in this day in 1917.

📍Beaurains Road Cemetery 🇫🇷

Captain Charles Browne, Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (F.F.) (Lumsden's), was shot through the head and killed by a rifle bullet while withdrawing a machine-gun section, when attached to the 15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis).

📍Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery 🇫🇷

Gloucestershire-born Lieutenant John Poulton served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment. He was accidentally killed after being struck by a dispatch rider’s motorcycle while acting as an umpire during a training exercise in Sussex.

📍North Nibley Cemetery 🇬🇧

A memorial to the crew of Lancaster LE-Z ND949, lost returning from an operation against Lützkendorf. Diverted in poor weather on its return, the aircraft crashed, killing all seven aboard, six of whom were serving with the Royal Australian Air Force.

📍Foxton, Leicestershire 🇬🇧

Private Charles McCorrie was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Siege of Sevastopol in 1855. Born in Killead, County Antrim, he served in the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot. He died in Malta in 1857, aged 27.

📍Msida Bastion Cemetery 🇲🇹

It’s fascinating to read the transcript of the discussion that took place in the House of Commons.

L/Cpl Winifred Caves, Auxiliary Territorial Service, died on this day in 1942. However, her body was not buried until 29 May.

The delay was raised in the House of Commons by Nuneaton’s MP, Mr Bowles, and answered by the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison.

📍Nuneaton (Oaston Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

Tom Manning and Frank Manning, 5th Battalion Canadian Infantry, were killed on the same day, have consecutive numbers, and are buried side by side. At first, I thought they may have been closely related, or even brothers, but it appears they are not.

📍Aeroplane Cemetery 🇧🇪

Corporal Herbert Easter, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, at rest in a cemetery on the Somme, France.

📍Connaught Cemetery 🇫🇷

The Malta Memorial commemorates almost 2,300 airmen who lost their lives during the Second World War and have no known grave.

📍Malta Memorial 🇲🇹

Stoker Jack Duran, Royal Naval Patrol Service, was killed alongside four others when HMT Cramond Island was attacked by enemy aircraft off Berwickshire on 2 April 1941. The St Abbs lifeboats rescued the survivors, two of whom were badly burned.

📍Foxton (St Andrew) Churchyard 🇬🇧

Private Margaret Lillian Thompson, Auxiliary Territorial Service, died on this day in 1946. Inside the church, I found her photograph displayed beside a marble tablet naming those from the village who were killed in the Great War.

📍Ratcliffe Culey (All Saints) Churchyard 🇬🇧

A busy day with many sites and cemeteries visited. The Thiepval Memorial, which bears over 72,000 names, was the final stop of the day

Before dinner, I made my final visit of the day to Albert Communal Cemetery and Extension, where the brother of a local VC recipient is buried.

After departing my home in the Midlands just after midnight, it’ll was then a much-deserved early night.

Heading out of Arras and towards my accommodation in Albert, I made further stops at Beaurains Road Cemetery, Bucquoy Road Cemetery, and Douchy-les-Ayette British Cemetery.

Arriving in Arras, I made my way to Carrière Wellington for a tour of the subterranean quarries and tunnels. It was here that New Zealand tunnellers created a labyrinth of tunnels 20 metres underground to billet 24,000 soldiers, who waited to attack the German lines in the April 1917.

Next on the agenda was Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, the resting place of over 7,600 servicemen, around half of whom remain unidentified.

As I headed further south towards Arras, I made a quick stop at La Targette French National Cemetery and the neighbouring La Targette British Cemetery.

Arrived in France early yesterday morning and headed down to the Somme.

En route, I stopped on the outskirts of Béthune, visiting Fouquières Churchyard Extension and Sandpits British Cemetery. It was then on to Notre Dame de Lorette, France’s largest military cemetery.