28-12-2011, 21:50
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Re: Tyne Cot Headstone
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Originally Posted by lancsdave
Not exactly an Accrington photo but may be ?
We were at Tyne Cot last year and took this photo of a headstone. Wonder if any of these were from Accrington ?
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None of them are from round here.
18 men of the East Lancs Regiment died that day.
It looks like one of those burials of men who were able to be identified, but not found for some time after they were killed, and not enough remained for a separate grave for each man.
Retlaw.
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