Keith Bugden

@keithbugden @jbanningww1 @Ianlyall9 hello, our latest webinar is here. Our teams are currently at work across our sites and a further update will be available soon: cwgc.org/our-work/susta…

@jbanningww1 @Ianlyall9 @CWGC Thank you Jeremy. I don’t think @CWGC have posted a recording of the recent webinar yet, as they promised? It will be interesting to listen again because I’m pretty sure it was stated that all headstones in cemeteries across France have now been treated. @CWGC response please?

@keithbugden @Ianlyall9 @CWGC I’m over at the moment and have seen some cemeteries much improved but some still looking uncared for. Oxford Road at Wieltje, Morlancourt No 1 & Franvillers all awful. Visited the latter two today so pretty recent photos

@cwgc, I'll ask again for your thoughts on the above images, especially in as on the recent webinar we were told all headstones that required cleaning had been cleaned?

@CWGC the headstones at Kingshill Cemetery in Dursley are in a very poor state. Can you please advise your local team/manager so that a formal inspection can be made and issues addressed? Thank you.

@FlandersBTour Remembering Lt. Robert Owen Bristow killed in action 10th March 1915. “They (his men) just loved the old lad. I have never known any person so universally admired and loved as he was by everyone” Buried Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard.

“As I lay in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, Where the big guns barked like the hounds of hell, Sez I to mysel’, sez I to mysel’ - “Billy, my boy, here’s the end o’ you.” Remembering the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10th - 13th March 1915. #OTD

@TrenchTrotter …and one at dawn

Tomorrow I leave for my first visit this year to the battlefields of the Great War. Four days on the Somme. This is a sunset at Peake Wood Cemetery from a few years ago.

@Ianlyall9 @KJvanWijk @CWGC @CWGC will you respond please? You recall what you reported during your recent webinar…

@KJvanWijk Thank you. His @cwgc headstone has a very bad case of * black spot * as have the others. So, @cwgc, have these headstones been treated ?

Shot at dawn. Private Herbert Chase van de 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers had geen zin meer in de oorlog. Op 12 juni 1915, om half 5 in de ochtend, werd hij door eigen troepen gefusilleerd tegen de muur van de St. Sixtusabdij (Westvleteren). Een toost op Herbert. #InFlandersFields

@SussexWfa @CWGC Delville Wood 3rd July 1917 (photo IWM)

Morning All today’s picture is of the ⁦@CWGC⁩ South African National Memorial at Delville Wood on the Somme. It was unveiled in 1926.

@ww1cemeteries Excellent IWM photos that you are sharing. Thank you!

Two South African soldiers share a light, near a freezing Beaumont Hamel, December 1916. IWM (Q 1713)

@SussexWfa @CWGC Remembering Captain Harry Alden Whitby, 11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). Killed in action Contalmaison on 10th July 1916. Buried here.

Morning all today’s picture is of the ⁦@CWGC⁩ Pozieres British Memorial & Cemetery. There are 14,717 souls on the Walls of the Memorial. The cemetery holds 2758 souls at rest of which 1380 are Known Unto God. Cemetery designed by W H Collishaw & unveiled in 04/08/1930

@msjanebond007 At 3 1/2 pence per letter, and 42 letters, this inscription would have been quite expensive for his Mother.

@keithbugden I still have the receipt somewhere of my grandmother where she requested a small inscription on the war grave stone of her first husband - she was widowed with three children but still had to pay a small fee for the inscription

“Weep Not For Me My Mother Dear Nor Wish Me Back Again” We will probably never know the story behind this inscription. An extract from a final letter perhaps…

@atticusfinch104 @sommecourt It does feel as though these are John’s words, either written or spoken to his Mother at some point near the end of his life.

@keithbugden @sommecourt it still does not explain the epitaph .... but that must have been how the family felt at the time when the Imperial Graves Commission asked

@atticusfinch104 @sommecourt Thank you Paul.

@keithbugden @sommecourt Keith I found the information on chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/danehillhistory.org/uploads/3/9/8/… about john dying of an illness

@sommecourt Thanks. In Danehill. It’s one that I care for as a CWGC volunteer.

@keithbugden From memory, I’ve been researching the Southdowns Battalions for over 40 years. His number indicates he enlisted late in 1914 so hadn’t been a soldier for long. The grave is at Lindfield or Dane Hill isn’t it?

@sommecourt Interesting, thanks Paul. Where is this information from please?

@keithbugden He died of illness I seem to recall, before his battalion went overseas.

@SussexWfa @CWGC @TheWFA Remembering Private John Sutton, 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). Killed in action 1st July and buried here.

Morning All todays picture was taken @cwgc Fricourt New Military Cemetery the headstone with the poppy in is that of A Barker KIA on 1st July 1916. He was only 16 Years old a Boy Soldier. ⁦@TheWFA⁩

@Ianlyall9 The Lochnagar…

Whisky corner, where to start ?

@Ianlyall9 @CWGC @CWGC I simply don’t understand. Can you please explain why you say things during a webinar which are clearly not true? There is a trust issue here.

@CWGC you recently stated " all headstones in France that required cleaning had been cleaned"? Certainly seem to have missed Rue David..

@fossemidge In 2023. Reported to @CWGC who assured me that they would get their local team to inspect. @CWGC have you abandoned this one?

@keithbugden Visitor book, stone and Cross Royal Irish Rifles. In sh*t order as usual.

Royal IrishRifles Graveyard