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Lancing Cemetery is set in a large open area, with a view going out to sea. It has some older historic monuments, but the most memorable thing are some eye-catching modern graves.
"...Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea "
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS___THE OTHERSIDE
Corporal
Sidney Bates
VC
5779898, 1st Bn., Royal Norfolk Regiment who died on 08 August 1944 Age 23
Son of Frederick and Gladys May Bates, of Camberwell, London.
In North-West Europe on 6th August, 1944, the position held by a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment near Sourdeval was heavily attacked. Corporal Bates was commanding a forward section of the left forward company which suffered some casualties, so he decided to move the remnants of his section to an alternative position from which he could better counter the enemy thrust. As the threat to this position became desperate, Corporal Bates seized a light machine-gun and charged, firing from the hip. He was almost immediately wounded and fell, but he got up and advanced again, though mortar bombs were falling all round him. He was hit a second time and more seriously wounded, but he went forward undaunted, firing constantly till the enemy started to fall back before him. Hit for the third time, he fell, but continued firing until his strength failed him. By then the enemy had withdrawn and Corporal Bates, by his supreme gallantry and self-sacrifice, had personally saved a critical situation. He died shortly afterwards of the wounds he had received.
Do not allow yourself to require such stark contrasts to see the simplest of beauty in everyday life
This cemetery was vandalized severely a while back, but they are trying to piece things back together
Rochester, Pa
Plot 22: James M. Nixon (59) 1937 – War Pensioner
9/1594 Gnr
J. M. NIXON
Field Artillery
Died 4-12-1937.
N.Z.E.F
View James’s military personnel file on line:
ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServle...
View and contribute to James’s profile on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph data base:
www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/recor...
Hiram Hopkins Tombstone (1879)
Binghamton Cemetery (1859)
Hwy. 113 at Binghamton Road
Binghamton
Maine Prairie Township, Solano
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI18-0011
Established in 1886 on a two-acre site deeded to Cornhill Masonic Lodge No.567 by Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Bridges. Interred here are community leaders, three civil war soldiers, and veterans of other wars.
Maintained by Cornhill Cemetery Association since 1953. Area now six acres. (1970) (Marker No. 9044)
Binghamton Cemetery (1859)
Hwy. 113 at Binghamton Road
Binghamton
Maine Prairie Township, Solano
© Matthew X. Kiernan
NYBAI18-0019
Captain
Edward Inkerman Jordan Bell
M C and Bar
17th Bn., Middlesex Regiment who died on 24 March 1918 Age 32
Son of Maj. E. I. Bell (Royal Fusiliers), and Minnie Bell; husband of Edith Anne Bell, of 7, Duchess Rd, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Photo taken 24th March 2018 one hundred years.