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Long walk in the snow, 70 years after the Rhineland Battles
The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial (French:Le Cimetière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometres north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II.
The cemetery is unique in that many of the dead were brought here from nearby Germany. It is one of the few cases where bodies were moved across international frontiers. It is believed that all fallen Canadian soldiers of the Rhineland battles, who were buried in German battlefields, were reinterred here (except for one who is buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery). General H.D.G. Crerar, who commanded Canadian land forces in Europe, ordered that Canadian dead were not to be buried in German soil.
Thousands of Dutch children tend the graves of the soldiers buried here as they do throughout the Netherlands.
The cemetery also has a Cross of Sacrifice within it.[1]
'Wedding walk' in Orkney, c. 1923
Lots of people get together to celebrate a wedding in Orkney, in around 1923. This is the custom of the 'wedding walk'.
In Orkney, as in many places both in Scotland and in the wider world, it was the custom for a broad section of the community to get together to celebrate a wedding. This walk must have been almost the last one in the Orkney islands, as the last one was in the late 1920s.
The woman at the front of the parade is probably the bride, as she seems to have some sort of headdress with a veil down her back. 'White weddings' have only been traditional since the nineteenth century. Light coloured clothing has been connected more with being 'feminine' also since then.
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