A Translation Tester for Mentalist

[Gagh]

We had a walk through Clayhall Royal Naval Cemetery today, an immaculate war cemetary very seldom opened to the public.

It largely holds graves for the dead between the late 19th century & WWII (though most are from The Great War). None have been added since.

It's such an amazing place, and it always leaves me with such a cathartic feeling for the 3-4 times I've managed to get in there (not bad, since it's in my home town). I'll be opening a thread at LoNAF with some pictures of the amazing sculpted graves & memorials in there.

One grave has always mystified me, as it's entirely in Greek.

Give that a go, Menty!

 

[whisky]

Only 24 when he died, poor bastard.

 

[Gagh]

Oh, the graveyard is full of those. One section has nothing but simple 'marker' graves, marking all those lost at sea, but never recovered (the dead for most RN ships are left where the boat was scuppered). There are literally hundreds of them, with the most basic of information engraved on simple brass plates. Each one tells its own mini-story really.

When you stand amongst them, it just drives the loss of war home.

I'm lucky to have grown up in an area with such long, rich military history, with all this nearby.

 

[Oh my god it's Robby!]

i luv cemeteries, but San Francisco has very few, but not far is

Colma, a 'cemetery city' if you will, gr8 fun to go to, particularly on acid

 

[Mentalist]

Here Lies Loudovikos Ponsetis

Simaiophoros (Ensign) Engineer of the Greek Royal Navy

Born in Athens in 1913

Died in Portsmouth on the 24th of May 1937

That's what it says. He has a very odd name for a Greek. Loudovikos is the Greek equivalent of "Louis" which is not common here at all now.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Poor guy.

 

[curiousa2z]

graveyards are excellent for geneologists or anyone who wants to get a picture of local history. You have this tactile record of the numbers and ages of settlers lost in epidemics, in childbirth, from calamities on the water, and, yes, war.
And they can also be places of poignant beauty .
I still remember vividly the Protestant Cemetary in Rome and the Weeping Angel some sculptor carved to commemorate the death of his wife.

thnx for these Gagh

 

[Gagh]

They tell you fascinating stories, like this, for example.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Doesn't feel right pos-repping gravestone pics.

 

[curiousa2z]

^therefore I will!

"an officer and a gentleman without fear and without reproach".

you don't see that on many tombstones these days.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I want my gravestone to be written in the style of thing of the day.

 

[Gagh]

^therefore I will!

"an officer and a gentleman without fear and without reproach".

you don't see that on many tombstones these days.

A large number of them have it at Clayhall.

For instance.

This is the top part.

This gets the bottom part.

 

[curiousa2z]

just as poignant as when she had it carved for him.