St Woolos Cemetery, Bassaleg Road, Newport 19 July 2016

            LBdr French's Argyll & Sutherland TA battalion was converted to 54th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1938. The regiment fought in France in 1940, batteries eventually being evacuated via Dunkirk and Marseilles. Their Bofors guns were used on the beaches at Dunkirk. They returned to France in 1944, post D Day, serving in Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands and eventually Germany itself after the surrender of the German forces. 

By the first half of the 19th Century, the churchyard around St Woolos Cathedral was overcrowded, noisome and unhealthy with broken coffins and bodies showing above the ground. Land was obtained from the Tredegar Estate for a municipal cemetery, and the first interment was in July 1854, making St Woolos the oldest public cemetery in Britain. Despite government legislation governing such public cemeteries, Roman Catholics were excluded for some time from the cemetery. The cemetery has been used for a Dr Who location.

Taken in: United Kingdom / Wales / Newport (show map)

Taken on: July 19, 2016

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Sets appears in: • Graveyards, Markers, Memorials & Honouring the Dead Vol 2 • Military Memorials more » • Newport, Mon Vol 1 « less

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