Bury Me Deep

Evening all.

I'd popped into a churchyard in Rotherham to pass a bit of time prior to a visit in the Rawmarsh area.

I quite like a little wander around churchyards, i find them very very interesting and only a little bit sad, usually if you look you can always find a stone or memorial that piques your curiosity.

Take this one for example, a member of the Royal Canadian Engineers, who died in April 1919, buried in a Rotherham cemetery.

After a little big of searching, turns out he was a man of York, who enlisted with the Engineers at the age of 37, whilst he was living in Canada.

A tunneller, one of those servicemen who in the Great War, fought their wars largely underground, digging huge tunnels under the enemy trenches and lines, before filling them with explosive and blowing them up, all the time at the risk of being detected.

Either by a German tunnel coming the other way, which apparently involved the most violent and brutal of hand to hand combat, miles below the earth's surface, or by having your tunnel collapsed in on you from above by the German troops.

The info i've found to date suggests this guy was at some stage a P.O.W and his cause of death is uncertain, as is the possiblitity of me pursuing much further after i've posted this blip.

But the stone has done what it meant to do, however briefly,
it made me remember.

night all


sisters of mercy