Nearly-Midnight The genealogy website relating to the family. A tangled web of people all related to one another, explore!
Robert Clark The Father of Henry Martyn-Clark - A missionary out in the North-West Frontier of India. One of the first Europeans to set foot in Afganistan
Affetside Census
A small village north of Bury, Lancashire, I can trace many of my immediate ancestors from there. On the Roman Road, Watling Street
Andrew Martyn-Clark My Father and his part in my World. Also my mother and his parents too.
Henry Martyn-Clark My Great Grandfather, his roots and his achievements. Discusses malaria but also his confrontations with Islam.

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Monday 25 June 2012

War Graves in the Church of St Anne cemetery

Another visit and further time in the graveyard revealed more servicemen's graves in the churchyard. I also include a couple of panoramas of the church yard.
Looking towards the south side of the church

Looking from the south door towards the lych gate
These graves are in the southern part of the graveyard - this is within the area of the panorama:

1000251 FLIGHT SERGEANT
C.HARRISON
AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
10TH APRIL 1943 AGE 28

67819 SAPPER
L.A. GILLETT
ROYAL ENGINEERS
15TH JUNE 1918 AGE 27

1051094 DRIVER
C. VENABLES
R.E.M.E.
22ND DECEMBER 1942 AGE 38

9871 PRIVATE
R.CAHILL
EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
31ST JULY 1917 AGE 29


These graves are in the northern part of the graveyard:

201819 Private Horace Smith
Manchester Regiment
15th February 1920
Age 22


2590439 Signalman
Robert Norman Sykes
Royal Signals
29th of March 1942
Age 31




1740682 Gunner
Ronald James Avison
66th Searchlight Regiment R.A.
(Gloucesters) T.A.
26th January 1942




There are other interesting memorials in the churchyard - another post.

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