A few months ago whilst clearing the area around the Main gates, John Wheeldon uncovered 3 gravestones that were not recorded in MI Book1, these were Arthur & Irene Allen, Sydney & Elsie Winter and Lily and Arthur Holmes. The Winter grave also commemorated Sydney Winter jnr who had been killed in North Africa on 30 Nov 1942.
We discovered that all of the above were relatives of member Sue Honeyman, who sent us photographs of her family. One of the pics was the attached pic of her aunt laying flowers on the above graves in the 1950’s, the girl in the black pram is Sue! Her mum Sheila, took the photograph. We arranged to meet Sue, her cousin Elaine and her mother Sheila (who is now a spritely 91!!) this morning to show her the graves and lay some flowers and 2 poppy crosses. (1 on Sydney Winter’s grave, and 1 on the adjacent grave of Herbert Walker, another family member who had been killed in France on 12 April 1918 ). We went on to show them the grave of Samuel Widdowson who has a headstone at the rear of the cemetery.
We were very privileged to share the time and stories of the family, and thank them for the old photos that they have shared with us.