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A pair of spruce trees support a pair of old wooden crosses at a grave in a little cemetery right on the northern edge of Riding Mountain National Park near Keld. It is secluded and peaceful, eternity beckons.
MacCallum Grant (17 May 1845 – 23 February 1928). Born in Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Nutting and Margaret (MacCallum) Grant, Grant was educated in Newport, Nova Scotia. He commenced his business career with S. A. White & Co, in 1873. He was a member of the firm Black Bros. Co. from 1875 to 1893. He then formed the firm Grant, Oxley & Company. From 1916 to 1925, he was Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
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Harold Taylor Wood Grant was born at Halifax Nova Scotia, son of Lieutenant Governor MacCallum Grant and Mrs. Laura Grant. In 1914 he entered the Royal Naval College of Canada at Halifax and graduated in December 1916.
His first sea appointment during WWI was in February 1917 as a midshipman with HMS Leviathan. Much of his service after WWI and before 1931, when he was appointed to the newly acquired Canadian destroyer Saguenay, was on board ships of the Royal Navy.
In 1938 Grant was appointed commanding officer of the destroyer HMCS Skeena and was in command during the 1939 visit to Canada by the King and Queen. In March 1943, Grant was appointed in command of the Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Diomede and later commanded HMS Enterprise.
For his part in a Bay of Biscay action on 28 December 1943, Grant was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), for "gallantry and skill and good service in command of HMS Enterprise in an action with enemy destroyers".
While commanding the Enterprise, she and a sister ship, the Glasgow, took on a fleet of 11 enemy destroyers. The two cruisers sank three, damaged several, and chased the remainder into a French port. For his service during the D-Day, June 1944 invasion of Normandy, Grant was "Mentioned in Despatches".
The USA awarded Grant the Bronze Star for his action during the naval bombardment of Cherbourg France, where he was wounded. In September 1947 Vice Admiral Grant was appointed Chief of Naval Staff in Ottawa and held that post until his retirement at the end of 1950.
On 8 May 1965, Vice Admiral Grant passed away suddenly at his home in Ottawa (Rockcliffe). He was survived by his wife and two daughters. www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com
This stone is to remember the VC winners from the paisley area and is situated just inside the gates of the Hawkhead cemetery. The names on the stone are:
Samual Evens born 1821, he won his VC in the crimea in 1855 and died in 1901. He is buried in Morningside Cemetery Edinburgh and his VC is in the Green Howards Museum, Richmond.
Arthur Henderson won his VC in France in 1917. His medal is in Lord Ashcrofts collection
John Hannah was born in 1921 and won his medal over antwerp in 1940 . He died in 1947 and his buried in Birstall, Leicstershire. His medal is in the RAF museum.
James McKechnie born 1826, won his medal at the battle of Alma in 1854. He died in 1886 and is buried in the Eastern Necropolisin Glasgow. His medal is at he Scots Guards Museum, London.
Hugh McIver born 1890 won his medal in France in 1918,he died a week later.
His medal is held at the Royal Scots Museum in Edinburgh Castle.
One of the things that struck me about this cemetery is just how many of the graves belong to people who served in the British navy or on merchant vessels. It makes you realise just how dangerous being at sea in the nineteenth century could be.
To the western edge of the Happy Valley racetrack is a hillside covered in graves. It began with the Hong Kong Cemetery, the oldest British graveyard and the resting place for many bureaucrats, soldiers, sailors and colonial elite. A Parsi cemetery lies to the south, a Catholic one further north and at the top, closer to Causeway Bay is a Muslim burial ground. If you can get over the morbidity, they are a fascinating window into Hong Kong's history.
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Madingley Road, Coton, near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Lehighton Cemetery and Huetten Cemetery are adjacent to one another and located in Carbon County, Pennsylvania in the town of Lehighton.
1. Hand with floral wreath, 2. Cross and book, 3. Cutting the garland of flowers, 4. Hand holding a lily, 5. Hand proffering a lily, 6. Woman's hand on vase, cemetery relief, 7. Cemetery hands with flowers, 8. Hand to heart angel, 9. Hand of a Holocaust figure, 10. Broken flower stem in hand, 11. Clasped hands and garland, 12. Angel's hand, 13. Hand with flowers, 14. Hands clasped on gravestone, 15. Sorrowful woman statue's hands, 16. Joined hands, 17. Definitive finger pointing toward heaven, 18. Angel's hand, 19. Hand reaching toward a crown, 20. Broken chain on gravestone, 21. cemetery hand, 22. Clasped hands, 23. Hand of a Holocaust figure, 24. Hand with flowers - cemetery relief, 25. Hand holding a cross squircle
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This week, for the first time, I had the opportunity to visit the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. This is the largest green space in all of Atlanta at ~48 acres. The entrance I entered through took me by the tombstones of soldiers who died as part of the Civil War. It's estimated that there are 6,900 Confederate soldiers interred here (3,000 unknown), 5 Confederate Generals as well as several (16) Union soldiers. A very somber sight to see... this is just one view of the rows upon rows of headstones marking their graves. Cropping the photo to display as a panorama provides some idea of how the tombstones, all lined up in rows, seem to go on as far as you can see.
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Cemetery for German soliders killed in the Battle of the Scheldt, Walcheren Island, Netherlands, 1944. From the Donald Carson fonds, PR2011.0001/2.