A few months ago Hanna travelled from Oxford to Leicester to revisit Welford Road Cemetery- the focus of this project- to meet with the Friends of the cemetery, visit the graves we're researching in person, and get a sense of what outputs for this research would be most feasible.
The cemetery has a designated Commonwealth War Graves Commission plot, but also has individual CWGC headstones scattered throughout the cemetery.
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| scattered CWGC grave |
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| CWGC plot |
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| CWGC Cross of Sacrifice |
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| 'Their name liveth for evermore', standard phrase used at CWGC sites- usually on the Stone of Remembrance |
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| grave of Samuel Paynter Musson, born in Jamaica and served with the Indian forces |
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| cemetery's visitor centre |
The Friends of Welford Road Cemetery have a small visitor centre that handles visitor queries and stores research related to the cemetery's graves. It was great to meet with some of the Friends and hear about their work.
Next week we'll have a post up on the outcomes of this meeting: what we decided to create as a more public-facing output for our research, and how the work on that is progressing!
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