More On The Cemetery

It’s been a quiet day, more DIY, more painting and tidying but remaining at home as advised.
I’ve used a photo from Sunday’s visit to the cemetery for today’s Blip and some information about the cemetery.

Most visitors to Falmouth Cemetery looking for the War Graves invariably head for the lower level where the Union Flag flies but this area contains only 74 of the 111 Second World War burials within Falmouth Cemetery, the rest are scattered.
Lying apart at the southernmost tip of the lower level plot are five graves containing the remains of 27 unidentified sailors who died in the bombing of H.M.S. "Registan" on 27 May 1941.
A further 4 are the graves of unidentified seamen of the Merchant Navy.

But there is much more to see, the cemetery actually contains 87 First World War burials, including those of two unidentified firemen from the S.S. "Clan Cumming", attacked by German submarine in the English Channel on 5 November 1917, with the loss of 13 lives, there are also 13 war graves of other nationalities within the cemetery, almost exclusively in the upper part of the cemetery.

Dominating the upper level is a Commonwealth War Graves ‘Cross of Sacrifice’. The ‘Cross of Sacrifice’ is carved from white stone, usually Portland stone, more formally known as an ‘Aberdeen Cross’ the name "Cross of Sacrifice" arose spontaneously from an unknown source, and attached itself to the cross.

A Cross of Sacrifice was erected in almost every European Commonwealth war cemetery but subsequent Commonwealth War Graves Commission policy has been to erect a cross only in Commonwealth war cemeteries with 40 or more WWI graves.