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Knight-Godburn family grave listing Elizabeth Hart Knight, d. 1997, and Pamela E. Godburn, d. 2002, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
The Hooglede German war cemetery (Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Hooglede in German) is a military cemetery in the Belgian town of Hooglede, six kilometres northwest of Roeselare. It is located at the east side of Hooglede. It contains 8,241 buried German soldiers from World War I.
On October 19, 1914, Hooglede was occupied by German soldiers. The Hooglede cemetery in the Beverenstraat arose in 1917 when the cemetery in Hooglede was no longer sufficient for the mounting deathtoll. There were some new cemeteries, including "Ehrenfriedhof Hooglede Ost Beveren" along the street. After the liberation by the French, approximately 4100 German soldiers were buried in the soil of Hooglede.
The German cemeteries were supervised by the Belgian military service of tombs, but in 1926 all the cemeteries were the responsibility of the Amtlicher Deutscher Gräberdienst. Between 1932 and 1937, this service was responsible for the German cemetery in the Beverenstraat. Many graves in various cemeteries in Hooglede, Gits, Handzame, Torhout, and Lichtervelde were sent to Hooglede. The graves then were marked by crosses.
In 1937, a chapel was built using stones from a German pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. During World War II, an addition 29 German soldiers were buried at the cemetery. These soldiers were later sent to another cemetery.
After the Second World War, the supervision of the cemetery was again in the hands of the Belgian organization "Nos Tombs". Not much later, in 1954, the monitoring was taken over by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German).
Numerous German graves dispersed over the country were transferred between 1956 and 1958 from 128 cemeteries to the four cemeteries in the Flemish part of Belgium. Hooglede is one of the four main German cemeteries in Belgium. The others being in Langemark, Vladslo, Menen.
During the renovation works in Hooglede in 1957-58, the entrance arches of the chapel were reduced to nine. This change came in two phases. The crosses were also replaced by nameplates. After 1960, no more major works were performed.
Historic cemetery located in the "ghost town" of Bodie State Park in Bodie, California.
Infrared photograph post processed in High Dynamic Range with Paint Shop Pro editing software.
Location: Bodie State Historical Park, Bodie, CA
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=509
Camera: Panasonic ZS8 (converted to IR)
Photographer: Dan Kacir
The main entrance to the Tyne Cot Cemetery/.
The name Tyne Cot came from the name given to a barn at the centre of a German strongpoint by the men of the Northumberland Fusiliers - "Tyne Cot" or "Tyne Cottage".
The Allied forces took Tyne Cot in October 1917 during the advance on Passchendaele and one of the German "pill-boxes" was used as an advanced dressing station.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world. It contains 11,956 graves. The Tyne Cot Memorial bears the names of 34,857 men who fell
in the Ypres Salient and whose graves are unknown.
At the suggestion of King George V who visited the cemetery in 1922 the Cross of Sacrifice was mounted on top of the largest of three "pill-boxes" that remain within the site.
The key features of the cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
See: CWGC - Tyne Cot Cemetery and Tyne Cot Memorial
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Tyne Cot Memorial
Sunday 1 April 2012
The Snoma Finnish Cemetery near Fruitdale was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1985 as part of the Architecture of Finnish Settlement thematic record.
The Snoma Finnish Cemetery is the only surviving site associated with the community of Snoma. Snoma had been established in the late 1880s by a group of Finns, Danes and Norwegians, most of whom belonged to a sect of the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church which had splintered from the church in Lead. The congregation was led by Benjamin Hasti, Solomon Johnson and Isaac Fardig. Snoma was made a post office in 1890. Until that time the community was called Suomi, the Finnish name for Finland. However, a misreading on the part of the post office left the community with the name Snoma.
In 1911 the Chicago, North Western Railroad passed to the north and through the town of Fruitdale. The post office was moved to this new town and Snoma suffered an out-migration of business. By 1918 the town had died and today all that remains is a Danish cemetery to the north and the Finnish cemetery which carries the name of this vanished community.
A large number of the markers are grey granite and were made by a local manufacturer, the Deadwood Granite and Marble Works in Deadwood.
Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers