{"id":4682,"date":"2023-09-15T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2023-09-15T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:40:21","slug":"remembering-our-fallen-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/2023\/remembering-our-fallen-brethren\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our fallen brethren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv6864856461MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Following a recent presentation to our Club by Elizabeth Smith of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission she invited us to join them at an Open Day at Harrogate Stonefall Cemetery.\u00a0 This cemetery, begun in 1914, is the resting place for over 1,000 servicemen who died during the First and Second World Wars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6864856461MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The cemeteries are financed by six countries: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and India,<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0who share the cost and maintenance of the Commission&#8217;s work proportionately to the number of their graves.\u00a0 There are over 23,000 locations in more than 150 countries and territories around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6864856461MsoNoSpacing\">Each headstone is inscribed with the details of the individual, including name, rank, awards, service number, religious emblem.\u00a0 There is no discrimination between ranks, race or religion, everyone is treated equally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6864856461MsoNoSpacing\">We spent several hours at the cemetery where volunteer tour guides recounted the stories of some of the buried and there was a demonstration on carving the stones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4683\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-1-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-1-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-1-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv6864856461MsoNoSpacing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4684\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-13-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-13-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/CWGC-13.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The gardens are immaculate, all tended by their own groundsmen.\u00a0 Many of us have visited other Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries and have found the same care and attention devoted to every one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a recent presentation to our Club by Elizabeth Smith of the Commonwealth War Graves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering our fallen brethren | News | Blog | Events | Wakefield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wakefield and District : Blog &amp; News : Remembering our fallen brethren : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Wakefield and District . 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