Forums Forums Wirral History : Chasing the Past History Information Request 12th March 1941

Slightly off note but on the topic of war graves, there are a number of RAF pilots buried at the small church (cant remember its name!)in Eastham village, from flying accidents etc at hooton Airfield

I can't really see that as we were out of range of flying bombs. I think the nearest one came down near Manchester and that was released from an aircraft. You are right about that area being flattened though. I've seen the photographs and it was a mess.

On the subject of graves in Eastham. You are correct, I was there the other day taking photographs. At least five of the gravestones are made of slate. Not sure why?

Helles

You obviously are very interested in War Graves, what are you planning to do with all the information you are gathering?, book, blog, website?

Goes on a website so people can see where their relatives are buried if they want. Not my website, I am just doing the Wirral graves that I can find. There are volunteers all over the place taking photo's.

What's the URL ?

The school in Higher Tranmere could posible be the one that was on the corner of Hillside Road and Kelvin Road. It was not used as a normal school after the war but part of the building became the Tec school of an evening prior to the Tec collage opening on Borough Road

Oops. http://www.britishwargraves.co.uk/

Does the CWGC have the names of everyone who died in the war? Where can it be viewed? I have some relatives who I would like look up.

Try Here

http://www.cwgc.org/

Helles,

How do you search the site for a surname? I cannot work it out!!

Sad to say I don't know. Use the contact form to ask them.

Are those photos on the net, would love to see them.

Emailed them, will post the reply.

Thanks for contacting the site.

All you have to do is look to see if the cemetery where the person is buried
appears on the site.

If it does, in most cases we will have photographs of all of the graves in
the cemetery.

If you are not sure where they are buried let me know as much information as
you can and I'll see if I can find them for you.

Cheers

Mick McCann
British War Graves

So no name index on site.

If you know the name of the casualty, do a search to get the cemetery details from the commonwealth war graves site and then ask for a photo if that cemetery has been photographed.