April 25, 2020 Support Our Work How you can support us Thank you for your interest in supporting the work of the old Folkestone Cemetery ‘Friends’ volunteer group. Our work…
November 22, 2020 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Appoints Claire Horton CBS As Director General. We are delighted to announce the appointment of Claire Horton CBE as the new Director General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. To read…
November 22, 2020 John James Wilson Prolific Artist. by Jan Holben (article written for The Looker) This wont be the first nor the last time you will hear me prattle on about…
November 19, 2020 Streatham Cemetery in Lambeth, London Now Available on Deceased Online Records from the London Borough of Lambeth’s Streatham Cemetery are now available to view on www.deceasedonline.com. Streatham Cemetery opened in 1893 under the Metropolitan Burial Act of…
November 11, 2020 Machine Gun Corp memorial – Protected and Armistice Day 11/11 Earlier this year, in the early Covid days when news channels and social media were swamped with Pandemic updates news was received that a…
November 10, 2020 National Federation of Cemetery Friends Update Dear Cemetery Friends There have been many changes in Covid regulations since our last Newsletter and they have varied throughout the UK. Groups have…
November 9, 2020 Remembrance Day 2020 At CWGC Sites The events of 2020 will long be remembered – the Coronavirus pandemic has affected so much of our daily lives, closing shops, schools and…
September 20, 2020 Slow Worm Audit During a recent informal nature survey, many examples of birds, plants, butterflies and insects were identified, at a later date we spotted a common…
August 26, 2020 The Headstone Mystery Each Saturday morning our cemetery volunteers gather in the old Folkestone cemetery on Cheriton Road to clear away the scrubby weeds and bring a…
August 21, 2020 War Grave Puzzle By Carole Moody Something was amiss. I had two stones, apparently for Lewis Dilnot, on different graves. What was going on in section 20?…
August 21, 2020 Lewis Dilnot He was a cook on the TSS The Queen, working on the night she met a group of German torpedo boat destroyers. The Queen…
