British Cemetery, Corfu town Greece, 26-07-2015
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Britischer Friedhof Korfu/Corfu British Cemetery
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Flowers at The British Cemetery, Corfu
A mid-April visit to the British Cemetery, hoping to see some of the 30 orchids botanists have found there.
Britischer Friedhof Korfu/Corfu British Cemetery
Corfu - British Cemetery
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Βρετανικό Νεκροταφείο Κέρκυρας / British cemetery in Corfu
Βρετανικό Νεκροταφείο Κέρκυρας -. British cemetery in Corfu - Cimitero britannico di Corfù
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Rememberence Sunday at the British Cemetery in Corfu 11-11-2012
Tο βρετανικό νεκροταφείο βρίσκεται λίγο έξω από την πόλη της Κέρκυρας και η αρχή της λειτουργίας του χρονολογείται το 1814, στην αρχή δηλαδή της αγγλικής κατοχής του νησιού, και προοριζόταν μαζί με άλλο ένα, το οποίο σταμάτησε να λειτουργεί το 1859, για την ταφή Άγγλων αξιωματικών στρατιωτών και των οικογενειών τους, που ζούσαν τότε στην Κέρκυρα.
Η πιο ενεργή περίοδος λειτουργίας του ήταν από το 1814 έως το 1864, που τελείωσε η αγγλική κατοχή του νησιού, και σε αυτήν την περίοδο, σχεδόν όλοι όσοι θαφτήκαν εκεί, είχαν πεθάνει όχι σε κάποια μάχη αλλά από αρρώστιες, όπως η χολέρα, που εκείνη την περίοδο βρισκόταν σε τρομερή έξαρση στο νησί.
Μπαίνοντας στην κεντρική πόρτα αντικρίζει κανείς έναν πανέμορφο κήπο, με την κατοικία του επιστάτη στα αριστερά, που ανήκει στη συγκεκριμένη οικογένεια εδώ και 83 χρόνια. Προχωρώντας λίγο ακόμα, ο επισκέπτης βρίσκεται στην αρχή ενός ελαφρά ανηφορικού διαδρόμου που χωρίζει νοητά το νεκροταφείο στα δύο, την «παλαιά» και τη «νέα» πτέρυγα.
Ξεκινώντας κανείς να τον διασχίσει, εμφανίζονται οι πρώτοι τάφοι της παλαιάς πτέρυγας στα αριστερά, με τάφους που ξεκινάνε από τον πρώτο χρόνο λειτουργίας του. Υπάρχουν επιβλητικοί πέτρινοι σταυροί και ταφόπλακες, ολόκληρα έργα τέχνης σκαλισμένα σε μάρμαρο και πέτρα, καθώς και μεγάλοι κέλτικοι σταυροί και αγάλματα. Σε έναν από αυτούς βρίσκεται και το πανέμορφο άγαλμα «Η Παναγία Κλαίουσα», όπως και ένα μεγάλο στολισμένο κενοτάφιο, στο οποίο είναι φυλαγμένα τα οστά όσων βρέθηκαν χωρίς όνομα στο δεύτερο νεκροταφείο. Δίπλα ακριβώς, στην αριστερή πάλι πλευρά του επισκέπτη, υπάρχουν και άλλοι τάφοι από την ίδια περίοδο, ακόμα πιο περίτεχνα στολισμένοι, καθώς και μια μεγάλη πλάκα με τα ονόματα όσων Βρετανών σκοτώθηκαν σε άλλα νησιά του Ιονίου και στην Κριμαία, κατά τον πόλεμο του 1851-1856.
Μόλις διασχίσει κανείς και το δεύτερο κομμάτι της παλαιάς πτέρυγας εμφανίζονται δύο μικρά μονοπάτια, ένα αριστερά που οδηγεί σε 12 τάφους ναυτικών των δύο αγγλικών φρεγατών Saumarez και Volage, που τραυματίστηκαν όταν τα καράβια τους χτύπησαν σε νάρκες, καθώς είχαν μπει σε αλβανικά χωρικά ύδατα το 1946, και μετά πέθαναν στο Στρατιωτικό νοσοκομείο της Κέρκυρας, καθώς και άλλοι 32 ναύτες, που σκοτώθηκαν αμέσως μετά την έκρηξη και βρίσκονται στον βυθό της θάλασσας.
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The British Cemetery in Corfu is located on the hill of San Salvatore, just a few minutes walk from San Rocco square. Founded in 1814, when Corfu became a British Protectorate (1814-1864), it was used as a place where the British officials, soldiers and residents were interred. After the departure of the British from the island, the cemetery served as the graveyard for the foreign families who stayed on. The earliest legible grave dates back to 1817. There are nearly 500 graves in the cemetery. It is still being used as a cemetery for the Anglican residents of Corfu. Among the most notable graves are John Connors' grave, died in 1857, a private in the 3rd Regiment of Foot, who was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Crimean War, and the monument to the seamen of the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Saumarez and HMS Volage, which ships were mined by the Albanians in 1946 (The Corfu Channel Incident).
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British Warships Off Corfu
We see the Warspite and a view of the island. Then a ceremony on board the Warspite when King George of Greece goes aboard. Later a cricket match is played - A Greco-British test match. Sir Dudley Pound receives the King of Greece on his flagship, the Warspite.
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Occupation Of Corfu (1923)
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M/S as boats full of Italian troops sail across from their ships towards the Island. M/S as they sail past. M/S of them marching up the dock after disembarkation. C/U of five soldiers marching along, one carries a standard. Troops watch from the side of the road. M/S of one soldier standing on a wall.
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Corfu's constant cemetery gardener | Global 3000
87-year-old cemetery gardener George Psailas enjoys cult status. Not only does he care for the graves with great devotion; he was actually born on the cemetery grounds and has already chosen his final resting place there.
Corfu: The Synagogue (1)
The synagogue, is one of the finest in Greece. It is called the Scuola Greca (or Tempio Greco) and can be dated to the 17th century.
It is built in the Venetian manner with the main (ground) floor reserved for community offices, common rooms, and, behind them facilities for a communal Sukkah , as well as a room for preparing bodies for burial. The synagogue proper is on the first floor.
Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France
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Caberet Rouge was a small, red-bricked, red-tiled café that stood close to this site in the early days of the First World War. The café was destroyed by shellfire in March 1915 but it gave its unusual name to this sector and to a communication trench that led troops up the front-line. Commonwealth soldiers began burying their fallen comrades here in March 1916. The cemetery was used mostly by the 47th (London) Division and the Canadian Corps until August 1917 and by different fighting units until September 1918. It was greatly enlarged in the years after the war when as many as 7,000 graves were concentrated here from over 100 other cemeteries in the area. For much of the twentieth century, Cabaret Rouge served as one of a small number of 'open cemeteries' at which the remains of fallen servicemen newly discovered in the region were buried. Today the cemetery contains over 7,650 burials of the First World War, over half of which remain unidentified.
The Canadian Connection
Many different Commonwealth units served in this sector during the war and the cemetery contains the graves of British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Indian and South African soldiers. It is also the final resting place of over 70 officers of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Cabaret Rouge has a particularly close connection with the Canadian Infantry, however, as hundreds of Canadians who were killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 were ultimately laid to rest here.
The cemetery and shelter buildings were designed by former Canadian Army officer Frank Higginson. Higginson worked as an architect for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the 1920s and later acted as Secretary to the Commission.
In May 2000 the remains of an unknown Canadian soldier were taken from this cemetery and buried in a special tomb at the foot of the National War Memorial in Ottowa, Canada. A focal point for remembrance, he represents more than 116,000 Canadians who lost their lives during the First World War. A headstone in plot 8, Row E, Grave 7 marks his original grave.
The Importance of Vimy Ridge
German forces seized the village of Souchez and the surrounding countryside as they advanced through Northern France in 1914. German artillery units were able to control this sector of the front from two ridges which flanked the village -- Vimy Ridge to the east, and Notre Dame de Lorette to the west. After 12 months of bitter fighting, the French forces captured the high ground at Lorette in the autumn of 1915. When the French handed this part of the line to the Commonwealth forces in March 1916, Vimy Ridge was still in German hands.
Vimy Ridge was the key to the German defensive system in this sector. It protected an area of occupied France in which coal mines and factories were in full production for the German war effort and the fortified vantage points on the ridge dominated the surrounding battlefields.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge formed part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras which began on 9 April 1917. The Canadian forces managed to capture most of the German positions on the ridge on the first day of the attack and by 12 April they had occupied the village of Thélus and pushed the Germans back to the Oppy-Méricourt line. By taking the ridge the Canadians achieved a major tactical success, but in just four days of fighting they suffered over 10,000 casualties, 3,500 of whom were killed. The battle was the first action in which all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together and had a major impact on Canadian national identity.
Српско војничко гробље на Зејтинлику - Zeitenlik
Zeitenlik (Greek: Ζέιτενλικ, Serbian Cyrillic: Зејтинлик) is an Allied military cemetery and World War I memorial park in Thessaloniki, the largest in Greece. It contains the graves of the Serbian, French, British, Italian and Russian soldiers and Bulgarian POWs, who died in the battles on the Salonika front during World War I. The largest part of the complex is the Serbian Military Graveyard, which contains the remains of c. 7,500 soldiers.[1] The French sector contains the remains of 8,000 French soldiers.[2] The Italian sector holds about 3,000 graves; the British sector holds about 2,000 graves, and there is also the Russian sector with about 400 graves.
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Der 87jährige Friedhofsgärtner George Psailas genießt Kult-Status: Er kümmert sich nicht nur hingebungsvoll um die Gräber, er wurde auch auf dem Gelände des Friedhofs geboren und hat sich dort schon seine künftige Ruhestätte ausgesucht.