mysteries of the graveyard – Page 8

Displaced – Fred Ingham

by admin June 8, 2023September 26, 2023One Comment

In Loving Memory of Fred Ingham, who died February 19th 1915 aged 26 years We didn’t expect to find Fred – he was right near the end of row 7, turned over and detached from any other grave, and he doesn’t exist on the transcript at all. So who was he? Born in Bury in …

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S2.8 (or S2.10) Eric Mitchell

by admin June 6, 2023November 25, 20256 Comments

There are only six graves in the graveyard which we can access that are Commonwealth War Grave Commission graves. The 7th is on the grounds of the school, the extension built around it in a way that allows the stone to still be visible and visitable (although the mechanism by which this was achieved is …