Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney (i)
Posted in Trips, War Graves, War Memorials at 20:22 on 11 July 2017
Panorama from road:-
Entrance and Cross of Sacrifice from road:-
Graves (WW2):-
More WW2 graves:-
Johannes Thill. Despite the fact more German sailors and one soldier are buried elsewhere in the cemetery this grave stands in splendid isolation well away from all the others. It can be seen in the background to my photo of the HMS Vanguard Memorial (previous post):-
A German Soldier. The other Germans in the cemetery were all sailors:-
A Norwegian Seaman (Norsk Sjømann) called Ivar Jacobsen, 1941:-
Tags: Commonwealth War Graves, First World War, HMS Vanguard Memorial, Second World War, the Great War, War Graves, War Memorials, World War 1, World War 2, WW1, WW2, WWI, WWII
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