Katyn Memorial Cannock Chase

podmm | 15:20 Sat 13th May 2006 | History

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Does any one know when the Katyn Memorial at Cannock Chase was opened?

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gary baldy

1976

kev100

I'd never heard of this memorial, why at Cannock Chase?

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Gary

Thanks very much

gary baldy

KEV-Cannock Chase is home to many war cemetries and memorials, mostly to foreign nationals, both allies and enemies (there is a german war cemetery there amongst others).

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Kev

The German cemetery opened in about 1969 and the bodies of German servicemen were taken there from all over the UK.Some say it is because the scenery around there is like that of parts of Germany.The Commonwealth Cemetery next door contains the graves of a lot of soldiers who died in the flu epidemic of 1918, mostly ANZACS and curiously also some Germans

kev100

Thank you gary and podmm, I would never have guessed at that

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