stiletto_33853 Posted 23 November , 2008 Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Lots of white stuff swirling around today, damn cold but pretty. Bedford House Cemetery, enclosure #4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 23 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Oxford Road Cemetery 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 23 November , 2008 Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Andy thanks for posting the pics hope you took yer thermals also hope it isnt like this for the retirement bash in March bet you warmed up with a few glasses of passendale ale lucky sod Tafski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 23 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Hi Taf, You can bet your boots that I had my thermals on, unfortunately though Jon could not find his so froze his preverbials off, he did look cold and ran down the track to Gwalia Cemetery, from there I think it took him all the way to Dunkerque to thaw out. This was the main motorway from Ypres to the Channel Ports. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 23 November , 2008 Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Andy please give johnathan a full kit check for march dont want him to suffer tafski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 23 November , 2008 Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Nice pics Andy. Never seen Oxford Road looking like that, but then I usually visit in October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 23 November , 2008 Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Andy, great pics, thanks for sharing them, the main road looked a bit dodgy! Regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 23 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2008 Hi Scottie, The main road was a bit dodgy in places, the front of the car tried to go in a different direction a couple of times, however some of the back roads were very slippery. When coming off the road to Langemark to visit Oxford Road the front went and then the rear tried to follow the front, everything was fine though, but not a day to visit some of the more remote areas. Ian, Oxford Road was very pretty in these conditions. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Hopefully you are safe and sound back on the 'Cockney Riveria' regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Chantal went to Dunkirk yesterday a.m.& came back this afternoon. Snow on the way & on the way back but,she said the autoroute was pretty clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchbarge Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Great Fotos! Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceebee Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Andy Nice to see these cemeteries in all types of weather. As a matter of interest, in the lower right hand corner of the first photo of Oxford House Cemetery there appears to be a blank flat topped headstone. Any ideas what it is? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Doesn't a blank headstone mean it's a massgrave? (Which is also indicated by the other two headstones placed shoulder to shoulder) Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 24 November , 2008 Admin Share Posted 24 November , 2008 The headstone you are referring to is a German stone. Great photographs Andy- I hope that you weren't driving in that autoroute pic! Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havrincourt Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Great pictures Andy......and I always thought you wore your shorts on every trip Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 24 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Hi Andy, Need to catch up with you a bit, been a very busy boy lately with work. Most definetely no shorts on this trip, too damn cold. I think you must be mistaking me with knees out Jon though, I do not don shorts very often, don't want to frighten the public away from the battlefronts Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 To think they had to man the parpet in a trench and in weather like that...I take my hat off to them (again). Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cnock Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Hi Andy, thanks for the nice pics! Cnock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 That blasted road's bad enough in good conditions. Nice pictures. Good to see Mods do get time off for good behaviour. You'd never catch me wearing shorts....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceebee Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 Michelle Didn't occur to me that it might be a German headstone. The CWGC cemetery description didn't mention any German burials and when I checked the plan it looked like the grave was Plot 1 Row E Grave 1. There was no reference to this grave. I think the two graves to the right are unknowns, possibly NZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 24 November , 2008 Share Posted 24 November , 2008 The website of the German war graves commission doesn't mention a burial at Oxford Road... Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 25 November , 2008 Admin Share Posted 25 November , 2008 I haven't been to Oxford road for years (sadly) but the stone is the shape that you see in some cemeteries for a German burial, so I assumed it was one. The mass burials are normally the standard CWGC stone, with a large cross. perhaps Terry D ought to come in on this one? Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regulus 1 Posted 25 November , 2008 Share Posted 25 November , 2008 There are two German burials on Oxford Road under the same headstone. The two German soldiers are Otto Henze +04/10/1917 and Franz Berlin +05/10/1917, both of the I.R. 92. This was a unit from Braunschweig. This unit participated in 3rd Ypres as part of the 20th German Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warproject Posted 29 November , 2008 Share Posted 29 November , 2008 Thanks Andy for refering me to the thread. The photographs of the graves look beautiful in all that snow. May I have permission to use them to makes some cards with. I will understand if the answer is that you would prefer me not to. Sandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiletto_33853 Posted 29 November , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 November , 2008 Sandy, You are more than welcome to use the picures to make some cards with should you wish to. If you need the full size pictures without sizing limitations let me know and I will e-mail them over to you. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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