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Troodos Military Cemetery is located on a steep rocky hillside on the B9 Nicosia to Troodos road about 1ml before the top of Troodos
Junior Engineer Officer, William LOUGH. Merchant Navy on M.V. Cingalese Prince (London) Lost at sea as the result of enemy action on the 20th September 1941 aged 29. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by U-111. He was the son of Alexander and Elizabeth and brother of Robert (Bob) who fell in 1916. He is commemorated on a family memorial at Dundonald Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland and also on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
This cemetery is named for the Reverend Thomas Stanford, a pioneer Methodist minister who moved to Texas from Arkansas in 1862 with his wife and family. They, with the E. R. Barcus family, established a school, church and cemetery. The Stanfords' daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Thomas Richey, donated five acres of land for this graveyard in 1875. The first recorded burial occurred in 1875. After years of neglect the graveyard was restored in 1962, and by 1965 a cemetery association was formed to maintain the site. The cemetery continues to serve the community. (1997) (Marker No. 12141)
Captain John Alexander Macdonald Allan, Royal Air Force. Killed on 20th May 1918, aged 23. Son of Mrs. Margaret Macdonald Allan, of "Rockvale," Waikari, North Canterbury, New Zealand, and the late Alexander Allan.
"Capt John Allan a 23year old New Zealander he was born into a farming family near Christchurch. He learnt to fly on his parents farm. He joined the RNAS and was sent to France where he was wounded in the leg. He was transferred to Redcar as an instructor on the Sopwith Camel a biplane very popular during WW1 mainly for reconnaissance over enemy territory. He was demonstrating a technique for coming out of a dive when his plane crashed just off Redcar Lane. This was witnessed by the late Vera Robinson M.B.E. and her mother. Her mother vowed she would look after this young airman's grave which she did. In the meantime his mother and her brother came over to Redcar with the intention of taking his body back home. When she saw how well it was tended she decided to erect a suitable memorial stone instead. She ordered a massive granite obelisk from a firm in Loftus. She sought out Vera's mother thanked her and gave Vera and her siblings money. We were fascinated by this young airman's exploits so we wrote to the Christchurch newspaper and they published the story which got back to the family and they wrote telling us who was who in the family. Over the years the weather took it's toll on the memorial and alas the pinnacle came down. After searching to find someone to re erect it because it was in a remote part of the cemetery we managed to get Mike Wetheral a well known stone mason from Danby to repair it and also try and get rid of the the acid rain stains from each rim. We obtained funding from the Heritage Lottery fund but unfortunately it was not done in time for seven members of his immediate family to come over and visit his grave. They were delighted to meet 100 year old Vera and it became part of our video 'Redcar Remembers' (still on youtube ) a reflection of WW1 in Redcar"
Friends of Redcar Cemetery
Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Friedhof Ohlsdorf or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the second-largest cemetery in the world after Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf, Iraq.[citation needed] Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there are also a large number of victims of war from various nations. [Wikipedia]
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Brompton Cemetery is located near Earl's Court in West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Consecrated by the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. It was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery, and is is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London opened in the 19th century.
Marsella is a typical country town with its unique Alejandro Humboldt botanical garden and cemetery: a masterpiece of funerary architecture.
W.H. Parsons deeded the original ten acres at this site in 1875 for use as a cemetery. The burial ground was named "Myrtle" for a child whose single grave was included in the tract of land. Also buried here is Frederick H. Rankin (1795-1874), a member of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colony and veteran of the Texas Revolution. Other graves include those of author Katie Daffan (1874-1951), and Marine Lieutenant Jack Lummus (1915-1945), who was killed at the battle of Iwo Jima during World War II and later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. (1980) (Marker No. 7132)
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