Gateside is a small village in Fife. We pass through it quite often as it on the way between Son of the Rock Acres and our younger son’s house.

Its War Memorial is a Community Hall, opened in 1921 in remembrance of the Great War dead from the village:-

From car park:-

The memorial plaque is on the wall by the entrance door:-

This web page has a photograph of the names of the Gateside dead from both wars on two plaques on an internal wall.

Huntingdon’s War Memorial is the most prominent feature of the main square (Market Square.)

From this Information Board I found it’s called “The Thinking Soldier.”

Great War and World War 2 Dedications:-

Later Conflicts Dedication:-

Side view:-

Memorial stone in grounds of All Saints Church:-

“Ghost Soldier” in grounds of All Saints Church:-

Upper portions:-

Off to the side of the Airborne Monument, almost hidden by trees, is a monument to 1st Airborme Reconaissance, dedicated to the “Freddie Gough Squadron.”

Closer views of the Airborne Monument, Oosterbeek, the Netherlands.

Details on base:-

British poppy wreaths and Dutch wreaths~:-

In a green space off the main road through Osterbeek town lies an impressive monument to the paratroops who landed at Oosterbeek in the Battle of Arnhem. It seems to be known as the Needle:-

This marker gives information about the monument, built in 1947 despite a shortage of materials at the time:-

Neraby is this information stone about the Battle of Arnhem and the Monument:-

Perimeter Route marker:-

View of monument from approach path:-

At the top of the road which lies between Oosterbeek Civil Cemetery and Oosterbeek War Cemetery I found this memorial to those who died trying to resupply the ground forces during the Battle of Arnhem.

Dedication:-

Names (which unfortunately turned out blurry):-

Across the access road from the War Cemetery at Oosterbeek is the civil cemetery. On its gates it had a Commonwealth War Graves sign. These graves were of RAF personnel shot down in earlier years of World War 2 while on bombing missions.

Sergeant F T Lay, Flight Engineer, RAF, 3/2/43, aged 21, Pilot Officer W M Smith, RAF, 29/7/1942 and Sergeant A Aldridge, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, 29/7/1942, aged 20:-

Sergeant J P Harper, Flight Engineer, RAF, 19/7/1943, aged 21, Sergeant C A S Barnett, Navigator, RAF, 15/7/1943, aged 19 and Sergeant H Biggin, RAF Volunteer Reserve, 15/7/1943:-

Sergeant J W Deacon, Air Bomber, RAF, 15/7/1943, aged 20, Sergeant H R Rhodes, Air Gunner, RAF, 15/7/1943, aged 22 and Sergeant G S Cole, Pilot, RAF, 15/7/1943:-

Inside the cemetery by the hedge at the roadside was this structure made of metal hexagons. I couldn’t see a sign indicating what it was:-

There were three more unusually shaped headstones at Oosterbeek War Cemetery. Looking at their dedications and dates of death I assume these are the graves of caretakers employed by the Commision to tend the cemetery. There is a tradition of these caretakers marrying locally and, especially in Northern France, of their children taking over the job on their retirement.

Herbert Alaster Denham, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 31/8/1963, aged 49.

Percy Henry Dawson, 24/5/1987 aged 71 and William Gregory, 20/10/1988, aged 80:-

And here’s another panorama of war graves within the cemetey:-

At Oosterbeek I found three graves of Dutch soldiers. Again with distinctive headstones, this time rounded.

J Groenewoud, 8/11/1916-18/9/1944. (He was the only Dutchman to fight at John Frostbrug):-

A M Bakhuis Roozeboom, 10/7/1922 – 19/9/1944:-

S Swarts, 26/7/1917 – 20/9/1944:-

Many Polish soldiers lie buried at Oosterbeek.

A row of their distinctive pointed headstones is to the right here:-

Similar rows flank the entrance buildings:-

A Liczner, 3 Baon Spad, 27/9/1944:-

E Morchonowicz, 3 Baon Spad, 23/9/1944:-

A Polish Member of the Parachute Regiment, Private F P Dobrozyski, 19/9/1944, age 26:-