Young German teenages from the Bremen sports youth party using a pressure spray to clean headstones. The Staffordshire College of Agriculture, Rodbaston, is also mentioned.

Members of the Datteln Christian Democratic Union (CDU) visited the cemetery as part their twin-town activities. Ansgar Bitter, the Chase Council Tory Group, Reg Cooper, the Reverend Brian Skelding and Labour Councillor Joan Loverock are mentioned.

Pastor Dieter Henkelmann (centre) of the German Lutheran Church, Nottingham, led a bilingual Remembrance Day service for world peace with Reverend John Wilkinson of St James’ Church, Birmingham. Juergen von Alten (German Deputy Ambassador), Colonel Niklas

Juergen von Alten and Air Attache Colonel Niklas von Witzendorf saluting the monument to the unknown soldier, during a bilingual Remembrance Day service for world peace.

Congregation at the bilingual Remembrance Day Service for world peace.

Congregation at the bilingual Remembrance Day Service for world peace.

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.

German teenagers who visited as part of the annual spring clean repainting names on headstones.

A gold award was presented to Staffordshire’s public relations officer, Peter Berrisford, by the West German War Graves Commission, for his work organising German teenagers doing an annual spring clean at the cemetery.

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