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Offline Lisajb

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Crosses/grave markers returned
« on: Tuesday 25 July 17 10:27 BST (UK) »
Read about this on the BBC webpage this morning.

I haven't found any of my ancestors buy if nothing else it makes interesting reading.

http://thereturned.co.uk/
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Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
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Re: Crosses/grave markers returned
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 July 17 14:28 BST (UK) »
Quite fascinating isn't it. I didn't know these markers still existed. Makes you wonder how these made their way back to the UK.
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Re: Crosses/grave markers returned
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 July 17 18:19 BST (UK) »
No, I had no idea either. Around 10,000 according to the BBC

Here's the BBC report - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-40446229
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Crosses/grave markers returned
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 27 July 17 13:37 BST (UK) »
Quite fascinating isn't it. I didn't know these markers still existed. Makes you wonder how these made their way back to the UK.

They came back over a period of time - two crosses from the same grave in Palestine are in churches near me.
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Re: Crosses/grave markers returned
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 27 July 17 16:35 BST (UK) »
They came back over a period of time - two crosses from the same grave in Palestine are in churches near me.

I was surprised to see the estimated number still existing.

Several churches have crosses, but they also exist in museums, schools and colleges.  The cross for a nephew of my 2xgreat grandfather is one of sixteen in Bradfield College, Berkshire.  I am led to believe that his parents paid for the cross to be sent to England after he was reburied in an official war cemetery.

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