Lord Lieutenants Presentation

 

Lord Lieutenants Certificate presentation CG

Lord Lieutenant and CG

Lord Lieutenants Awards
IJ     CG     Biggles

TYNESIDE IRISH REMEMBRANCE

ST PATRICKS DAY

Armed Forces Veterans and Chi Onwurah MP

Tyneside Irish Remembrance Parade

Tyneside Irish Remembrance Parade
Opening Address

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Padre leads the Service

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Exhortation IJ

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Pipers Lament

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Irish Consulate Wreath

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Lord Mayor Newcastle lays Wreath

Tyneside Irish Remembrance
Padre closing prayers

                        

Tyneside Irish Centre St Patrick's Day

Somme 2023 - NVAA Battlefield Tour

 

Somme 2023 IJ

Battle of the Somme 1916

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Somme 2023 River Somme

Somme 2023 Ibis Albert

Somme 2023 

Somme 2023

Somme 2023 Northumberland Fusiliers

Somme 2023 Devonshire Cemetery

Somme 2023 Thiepval

Somme 2023 Thiepval 18 DLI Memorial DR

Somme 2023 Tyneside Scottish Memorial La Boisselle

Somme 2023 Australian National Memorial
Villers-Bretonneux

Somme 2023 Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery

Somme 2023 Australian National Memorial
Villers-Bretonneux

Somme 2023 Albert

Somme 2023 Le Bistrot Restaurant 

Somme 2023 Le Corner Pub
Royal Artillery and Gloucester Yeomanry Veterans

Somme 2023 CWGC Beaurains

Somme 2023 CWGC Beaurains NVAA

Somme 2023 Gare de Lille Europe 

Somme 2023 - CWGC Experience

NVAA Battlefield Tour 2023
CWGC Visitor Centre Beaurains

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) visitor centre at Beaurains, near Arras, provides an insight into the functioning of the CWGC in the maintenance of British and Commonwealth cemeteries worldwide. 

CWGC Visitor Centre Beaurains

The CWCG commemorates 1.7 million Commonwealth servicemen and women who died in two World Wars. It operates at 23,000 sites in 150 countries and territories world wide

Workshops produce headstones, signage, wooden furniture and doors, as well as metalworking for cemeteries.

CWGC Beaurains Workshops

Beaurains produces 2-3 thousand headstones per year which are shipped worldwide to replace those that are damaged and weathered.

CWGC Beaurains Headstone's ready for shipment

The headstones are cut to the required shape and an engraving machine stencils badges and lettering. 

CWGC Beaurains Headstone Engraving

CWGC Headstone Components

CWGC Headstone Shapes

CWGC Headstone Stone Types

Signage, wooden furniture and doors, as well as metalworking for cemeteries is produced at Beaurains.

CWGC Beaurains Sign Production

CWGC Beaurains Sign Production

CWGC Beaurains Metalworking

CWGC Beaurains Metalworking

There are servicing facilities for machinery and tools used to maintain the gardens.

CWGC Beaurains 

Specialists are responsible for the recovery and identification of the 20 to 30 remains which are found each year on the former battlefields. They will endeavour to trace relatives and ensure those found are buried with appropriate military honours. This specialist work led to the CWGC creating a new cemetery at Fromelles in 2019, the first in over 60 news.  

Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery model