cemetery Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/cemetery/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:39:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Experience is open https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/the-commonwealth-war-graves-commission-experience-is-open/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/the-commonwealth-war-graves-commission-experience-is-open/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:31:46 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4911 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) opened its new ‘behind the scenes’ visitor centre last week in northern France. Most people are aware of the CWGC, particularly when they visit a CWGC cemetery or memorial, but they are perhaps not aware of what the CWGC does or on what scale they do it. Many think […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/the-commonwealth-war-graves-commission-experience-is-open/feed/ 1 The German Cemetery at La Cambe, Normandy https://mechtraveller.com/2019/05/the-german-cemetery-at-la-cambe-normandy/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/05/the-german-cemetery-at-la-cambe-normandy/#comments Fri, 17 May 2019 17:22:10 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4645 The biggest surprise about the German military cemetery at La Cambe is its size – it is small (16.5 acres), given that 21,222 German soldiers are buried here. That’s much smaller than the American Cemetery at Colville (172.5 acres), which has 9,380 graves. The reason is that, not only are the graves packed closer, but […]

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