Re: German military cemetery in Ireland

"Dennis Ahern" <ahern@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Mike ****ngleton <****nglmaunderscore64@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> : "No Spam" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> : news:a3tvr3htqn6o3o0c1vim7ctvvrp84vq0hd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> :> He was from Lanca****re & his  family lived there so it is possible
> :> that his remains might have been returned to Liverpool. As far as I
> :> know there are no CWG sites in the Republic.
>
> : Actually there are many CWGC cemeteries and memorials in the Republic;
I
> : suspect it may run in to the hundreds.
>
> : There's even a German Military cemetery in County Wicklow which I
bumped 
> in
> : to quite by chance whilst visiting a year or two ago.
>
> That was probably the German Military Cemetery at Glencree, Co. Wicklow.
I
> believe that was the eventual place of burial for German fliers and
seamen
> whose bodies were recovered in neutral Ireland, or who died while
interned
> there during the second world war.
>


Not sure if this is an old thread.
For the record there are over 3000 CWGC graves in the Republic.

-- 
Trish

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