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Belgian military cemetery: Houthulst; Belgian military cemetery: Oeren; Canadian national monument: The Brooding Soldier; Commonwealth military cemetery: 1st D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff; Commonwealth military cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery; Commonwealth military cemetery: Buff’s Road Cemetery; Commonwealth military cemetery: Buttes New ...
The classically inspired Menin Gate in Ypres. World War I is remembered and commemorated by various war memorials, including civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict.
The cemetery was originally a wartime one; and the early burials are mainly of Grenadier Guards who fell in the area on 25 September 1916, which was when the Guards Division took the nearby village of Lesboeufs. It was a small cemetery, with only 40 graves, but after the Armistice it was increased in size, and now contains 3,136 graves.
It is currently based at Borneo Barracks, at Cabarlah and has an establishment of around 250 personnel. The majority of its personnel are members of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals. [6] In June 1995, then Governor-General Bill Hayden was the Reviewing Officer for the regiment's 48th birthday parade held at Borneo Barracks, Cabarlah. [7] [8]
Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 44.2 acres (17.9 ha), and as of the end of 2007, had 42,184 interments.
It is thought that the name Cabarlah derived from an Aboriginal expression describing the ring-tailed possum. [7] However, a 1930 newspaper article claims it is a "Native name of the mountains in the neighbourhood". [8] The Queensland Government set aside land for the Geham Cemetery (now the Cabarlah Cemetery) on 11 September 1878. Trustees ...
Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in West Texas, located at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army post adjacent to the city of El Paso. Administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 82.1 acres (33.2 ha), and as of 2014, had over 50,000 interments.
During the Civil War, Camp Butler was the second largest military training camp in Illinois, second only to Camp Douglas in Chicago.After President Lincoln's call for troops in April, 1861, the U.S. War Department sent then Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Springfield, Illinois, to meet with Governor Richard Yates for the purpose of selecting a suitable site for a training facility.