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The Romanian Military Cemetery at Soultzmatt. Romanian Prisoners of War were housed in a nearby camp. Over 500 graves and a mass burial plot contain 687 souls.
Cmentarz Powstańców Warszawy
This is the largest burial site of victims of the Warsaw Uprising, which broke out on 1st August 1944 and lasted until 2nd October 1944. Approximately 104,000 people (mainly persons unknown) are buried in the cemetery, mostly in collective graves.
Warsaw Insurgents Cemetery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Insurgents_Cemetery
Warsaw Uprising: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising
The Luxembourg American Cemetery is a World War II cemetery. Most of those buried here died during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and 1945.
Carrion crow (Corvus corone) in Brompton Cemetery during the Month of the Dead
Brompton Cemetery is one of the 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries, formed after an act of Parliament for the interment of the dead.
The site proposed for this cemetery was surrounded by fields and market gardens and was bordered to the west by the Kensington Canal. The majority of the land, which belonged to Lord Kensington, was acquired by August 1839. An additional c 2ha on the south side was bought from the Equitable Gas Company. The land, formerly the site of brickworks and market gardens, was flat and lacked the varied topography of Highgate (qv) and Nunhead (qv) Cemeteries. It was described as 'having no natural attraction whatever ... not a tree and scarcely a shrub adorn the place'...in 1838 the Board of Directors decided to hold a public competition. This was won by Benjamin Baud (1807-75)...To overcome the constraints of the site his scheme relied on architectural drama for its impact. Brompton was a classical conception with dramatic vistas and spaces, in a rural setting...Building work started in 1839 and the cemetery was consecrated in June 1840, the first burial taking place a few weeks later. The building works and the landscaping were far from complete however and the North Lodge had to be used as a temporary chapel, the Anglian Chapel being eventually completed in 1842. Baud's extravagant ideas and a slow initial uptake of burial plots appears to have led the directors into financial difficulties. Baud's designs were therefore altered, building specifications were skimped, and serious faults appeared in the catacombs; in 1843 Baud was dismissed.
[Historic England]
I was surprised when Danielle showed me the 19th Century St Stephens Anglican Church cemetery in the middle of Newtown, Sydney.
One of the elder headstones in the Princeton Cemetery. I'd tried photographing it on an overcast day, and the diffuse light made it impossible to make out the inscription.