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Cannock Chase Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase, Cannock

D-EXP/P/W27/25 25 Apr 1977 Wolverhampton Archives

Rachel Windsor, a maori from New Zealand, is shown wearing national dress and laying a wreath at the Anzac Day service to Australian and New Zealand men who had died in both world wars. The Countess of Lichfield, the West Midlands Branch of the Military H

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Moxley War Memorial, Moxley Road, Junction with High Street, Moxley, Walsall

D-EXP/P/W27/130 9 Dec 1989 Wolverhampton Archives

Walsall South MP Bruce George and Walsall’s Mayor and Mayoress, Councillors Ray and Doreen Farrell, led protesters who were battling to save Moxley War Memorial. The Black Country spine road, the Black Country Development Corporation and Walsall Council a

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German War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/61 26 Nov 1976 Wolverhampton Archives

German War Graves Commission architect Horst Brandt (right), Hubert Rogge (centre) and Harold Doffman (standing) assessing the condition of the headstones on which the inscriptions had faded.

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German War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/75 7 Aug 1984 Wolverhampton Archives

Yvonne Kahns from Bremen, Germany, working on a granite headstone. The photograph also shows Arthur Cholerton (centre) and Eric Roberts.

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German War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/64 31 Jul 1979 Wolverhampton Archives

Councillor Arnold Ward, Chairman of Staffordshire County Council, laying a wreath at the cemetery. Walter Franke from Bremen was visiting, along with a group of German youngsters who were participating in an annual spring clean.

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German War Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/72 29 Jul 1982 Wolverhampton Archives

Susanne Schickedane, painting names on the memorial stones as part of the annual spring clean. 25 young people from Bremen, Germany, and two Danish visitors, came to tend graves at the cemetery.

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Katyn War Memorial, Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/90 11 Oct 1982 Wolverhampton Archives

Nick Miller (left), Richard Lowton (centre) and Peter Danks, from Thomas Alleyne’s High School in Uttoxeter, repaired the car park in front of the Katyn Memorial as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award.

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Katyn War Memorial, Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/89 10 May 1982 Wolverhampton Archives

At an annual service to the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre, Major Bernard Pearson called for Britons to support Poland’s struggle for freedom. the United Ex-Service Council, Stefan Staniszewski, Josef Stalin, Frederick Kocon, and the Royal British Leg

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Hall of Memory, German Military Cemetery, Cannock Chase

D-EXP/P/W27/47 31 May 1967 Wolverhampton Archives

Siblings Eric, Julie and Terry Rushton viewing a symbollic reclining figure – the “Dead Warrior” – created by a Bavarian artist and placed in the newly created Hall of Memory. The official opening ceremony was planned for June 1967.