Hot & Sticky

Mrs S and Sam left for Truro early, their trip to include Breakfast meant I was left to enjoy scrambled eggs with sausages and toast accompanied by a couple of cafetières of coffee.
A little tidying and some paperwork which is required as supporting documentation for the naming of a trophy, more of which in the future.

The afternoon saw Sam and I head off to Penzance for the Commonwealth War Graves tour of the cemetery. Really interesting, I wanted to see one grave in particular, that of C Rankin, a Royal Navy Engineering Lieutenant who died on 1st January 1919 whilst serving on H.M Yacht Iolaire. 201 of 283 service personnel who had survived the war drowned whilst being returned home to the Isle of Lewis.

Taken with the war grave of a fourteen year old boy killed at sea it serves as a reminder of those who gave everything.

Todays photo, a montage;
Top Left - Not a CWGC headstone but as one of the earliest VC winners provided by his regiment.
Top Right - Private Memorial to C Rankin of HM Yacht Iolaire
Bottom Left - Mess Boy J Ostrich, Aged 14
Bottom Right - Grave of an Unknown WWII German Soldier.