Wheres this flag?
Madingley US cemetery?
Roymondo:
Madingley US cemetery?
+1 It sure is…
Yeah its Madingley. Didn’t think that would last long
Occasionally stop there for a 45 minute Break. It’s a lovely peaceful location in the Summer months, but just wandering around looking at the names on the headstones (and the even bigger list on the wall) always leaves me feeling very humble. Getting on for 4,000 graves there, with over 5,000 names on the wall of those “missing”. Very much a far flung corner of a foreign field for those men - the vast majority of them had probably never even travelled outside their own country (or even their own State) before being sent off to fight thousands of miles from home.
Did my last 6 months in the Army at Bassingbourn, not far from this place and never knew it existed!
Reminds me of my final release medical, and in particular the hearing test in the deepest back reaches of the Med Centre. A small room with 4 metal hatches about 6 foot up on the wall where “clinical waste” passed through to the bins outside. Makes you think…