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kinnethmont
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: Newmachar, CWGC Cross of Sacrifice and War Graves |
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NEWMACHAR CROSS OF SACRIFICE
UKNIWM Ref: 8615
Address
NEWMACHAR
GRAMPIAN
SCOTLAND
Type: CROSS - CWGC
Other Location Details: NEW CEMETERY TO THE EAST OF THE VILLAGE
OS Map Ref: NJ 883 192
Sir Reginald's Blomfield's Cross of Sacrifice is positioned at the entrance to Newmachar Cemetery in which there is a War Graves Plot.
It contains 59 Commonwealth burials of the 1939-45 war. The burials were mostly from the naval base at Aberdeen and from Kingseat Naval Hospital at Newmachar,
_________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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