Dunkirk Town Military Cemetery, Dunkirk, France
Video of the Dunkirk Military Cemetery in northern France. This is one of many vids I've posted of D-Day and CWGC sites and cemeteries. Search on g4shf CWGC to find them.
DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY contains 460 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, ten of them unidentified. The graves are situated in Plots 1 to 3 in the public part of the cemetery to the right of the main entrance, and in Plots 4 and 5 of the Commonwealth War Graves section adjacent to the Dunkirk Memorial.
Of the 793 Second World War burials, 213 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 58 soldiers known to be buried among them. These graves are in Plots 1 and 2 of the section by the Dunkirk Memorial. There are also Czech, Norwegian and Polish war graves within the Commonwealth section, and war graves of other nationalities will be found elsewhere within the cemetery.
The DUNKIRK MEMORIAL stands a the entrance to the Commonwealth War Graves section of Dunkirk Town Cemetery. It commemorates more than 4,500 casualties of the British Expeditionary Force who died in the campaign of 1939-40 and who have no known grave.
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Dunkirk Commonwealth War Cemetery
This is the war cemetery for Allied troops who fell at Dunkirk in 1940. I filmed this in June 2012.
Dunkirk - Battle of France - a FAFLV's campaign
The second part of the FAFL campaign, realised by FAFLV-ZaRadino, and last part which takes place during the Battle of France, the next step will be the Battle of Britain.
The FAFLV (Virtual Free French Air Forces) is a francophone virtual squadron flying on IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 and flying every nation and evey aircraft.
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WAR GRAVES - FRENCH COAST AND BELGIUM - NO SOUND - COLOUR
Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium - largest number of graves: Cross is built on the top of an old Pill Box. S.African/NZ/Canadian/ regiments etc., including headstone of a V.C. Various scenes at Dunkirk of War Graves Commission Cemetery. Man looking at visitors book. Polish headstone of members serving with the British forces. R.A.F. headstone. French Cemetery with ornate memorial. NOTE: THESE GRAVES ARE ALL WORLD WAR 1
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Hinges military cemetery, Dunkirk WW2 graves, Dunkirk retreat
The tragic illustration of how many soldiers were killed in the rearguard action at Dunkirk, 1940 - the story behind the graves at just one of the many military cemeteries in France. Showing photos of the graves of fallen soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and The Royal Scots Regiment. All killed whilst bravely covering the retreat of other soldiers. Connected to my Dad's published memoirs recounted in Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg.
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FightingThroughPodcast.co.uk. The Fighting Through Podcast offers first hand accounts of veterans connected to my dad’s war. Dunkirk, D-Day; Interviews, memories & much more. Over 150 five-star ratings in iTunes.
At the Dunkirk Memorial
At the CWGC Dunkirk Memorial in Dunkirk
Cimetiere Sud, Calais, France: Commonwealth War Grave of Private Southgate 61167
In doing genealogy research for my wife I visited Cimetiere Sud, Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France with my son and a friend who was also doing family research. At this Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery for the 1st and 2nd world wars we identified and filmed the memorial grave of Private Southgate 61167; and while there we also filmed and photographed the communal cemetery where the gravestone stands.
Dunkirk Town Cemetery
1:35 Private F. Abdey
1:40 Private W. A. Bayers
1:45 Corporal E. J. McEvoy MM
2:15 Pilot M.B.B. Stalinksi
2:20 Wing Commander D.R. Scott AFC
2:40 Captain J. Zaremba
2:45 Squadron Leader R.A.L. Knight DFC
3:20 Flight Sergeant J.P. McKay
4:00 Sapper R.J.G. Campbell
4:05 Private E. Gobeil
4:20 Lance Corporal M. Bubis
4:30 Sub-Lieutenant C.D. Wallace RCNVR
5:20 Loytnant Henning Leifseth
6:20 St. Sierz. W. Jasinski
6:35 Squadron Leader T.H.V. Pheloung
7:05 Pilot Officer W.B. Tyerman
7:25 Wing Commander N.J. Starr DFC & Bar
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
The untold story of Dunkirk, 1940
Operation Dynamo, as the effort to evacuate thousands of allied servicemen from France became known, was described as a a miracle of deliverance by Winston Churchill, but while getting over 330,000 soldiers back home was a huge achievement, it doesn't tell the whole story of June 1940.
For many, the fall of France and the retreat to the Channel Ports meant desperate rearguard actions, surrender, captivity and death. Ranald Leask visits some of the Commission's cemeteries and memorials to those who fell at Dunkirk and speaks to the men who were there.
DUNKIRK MEMORIAL UNVEILED
At Dunkirk, the arrival of the British destroyer, HMS Chieftain, heralded a special ceremony of remembrance on the seventeenth anniversary of that fighting retreat that will for ever by known as Dunkirk. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was received by General Ganeval (representing President Coty). Guards of Honour were mounted by British and French contingents. The Queen Mother unveiled the memorial to 4,700 men who fell in the 1940 campaign and have no known grave.
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El Alamein Commonwealth War Cemetery
My attempt to convey the peacefulness and sadness of this place. I asked my children to choose the messages that made them sad - they feature on the video.
Commonwealth War Graves Somme battlefields Part 1
Three day in France looking at Somme battlefields,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
First or Second World War
Video in three parts
Part 1
War Graves in the Somme area of northern France.
A selection of photos from the eternally sad and fascinating war graves from the Somme area of France. The plain gravestones are British and Commonwealth, the stone crosses are French and the metal crosses are German. Young men all, separated from friends and family and destroyed in the mud to satisfy the politician's insatiable desire for power and control. The music is the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi.
Commonwealth War Graves, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
On 16th March 2013 I went to pay my respects to those whose memorials are to be found in this oasis of calm. Friend and foe alike are now at peace.
WWI Commonwealth War Graves, Nunhead, Southeast London.
For 16/556 Pvt GW Hovell. d.1915, NZ Maori Battalion, & all the other southern boys...
Nunhead Cemetery, Southeast London.
(I'm not an editor so it is sentiment over quality !)
War Graves in France
Never Again? With most of the soldiers dead now I'm not sure most remember what it is they aren't supposed to forget.
War Cemetery Berlin 1939-1945
WW1 Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt in July18 Commonwealth War Graves Commission
During our annual trip to watch the Tour De France in July 2018 we stopped to pay our tributes to my great great uncle George Gibson. I visited his gave 20+ years ago -
Information about the cemetery from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission -
Music - ES_Seaweed - Ebb & Flod
War Graves and Cemeteries in France
Travels in a motorhome in northern France. The author looks at various World War I and II sites in France, including cemeteries and nazi installations left over from the war.
Souda Bay War Cemetery
WW 11 Commonwealth War Cemetery in Crete