A dilapidated WW1 memorial stone

[Annie65115]

I stumbled over a neglected and half-buried memorial stone to a WW1 soldier whilst looking around a municipal graveyard today. I’ve found him on the CWGC site and it appears that he is buried in a war cemetery in northern France, but clearly his memorial stone in the local cemetery has been neglected and forgotten.

There are other “standard” war graves in this cemetery, the usual white headstone of regulation size.

So would any organisation want to give this young man one of these stones here in England, to replace the one that his long-dead parents put up?

[Albufera32]

If there are already CWGC graves within the cemetery, it couldn't do any harm to report it to the CWGC. If he does already have an "official" stone they may not do anything, but if there are graves they already care for in the same cemetery, they might at least tidy up and take care of the one you found.

[IMBER]

Much depends on the size of the cemetery and how many war graves are there but smaller locations usually have local maintenance arrangements. An approach to the local Royal British Legion might be worthwhile. There’s no way a CWGC stone would be approved.

Imber