The Chapel at the American Cemetery
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery and chapel between the villages of Coton and Madingley in Cambridgeshire, England. It was opened in 1956, and commemorates American servicemen and women who died in World War II. It is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
The cemetery dates to 1943, when it was opened as a temporary cemetery on 30.5 acres of land donated by the University of Cambridge. After the war, it was selected as the only permanent American World War II military cemetery in the British Isles.
The cemetery contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen, including airmen who died over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys. The inscribed Wall of the Missing includes four representative statues of servicemen, sculpted by American artist Wheeler Williams. The wall records the names of 5,127 missing servicemen, most of whom died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in the strategic air bombardment of northwest Europe.
The cemetery is beautifully maintained, but is such a sad reminder of the pity of war.
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Taken on Wednesday May 10, 2017
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Posted on Tuesday May 16, 2017
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Nest wishes ... Steve
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I wonder if you have read any of the anti-war poems by the Shropshire born poet Wilfred Owen?
There is one entitled 'Strange Meeting', which is very moving.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47395
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