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Old 9th May 2017, 10:40
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Commonwealth War Graves

Driving through one of our local towns yesterday - in a traffic hold up - my wife noticed an entrance to a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery. I found this unusual so had a look on Google this morning. There are two sites in Bridgwater one the chapel which we passed and another in and area called Wemdon, were the graves are. I looked at the list of fallen a total of 37. What struck me was that of these only two were from the Commonwealth - 1 Australian and 1 Canadian. The rest were all UK and from various services. Many were RN.
Can anyone explain why we have a CWG there with mostly UK fallen and how would they have come to be buried there in the first instance.
Having lived in this area for 47 years I was surprised that I had never seen it before.

Neville - Hawkey01
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