Some Gave All: Tombs

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Private Memorials: Tombstones

They can be things of real beauty, deeply personal, and yet public at the same time. Perhaps the last word in private memorials.

They were clearly Irish, recalling the old country, or at least its heritage.

I love this grave marker. Probably because of my Irish heritage.

People who had raised cattle. . . and loved what they raised.

I love this one too. Would that most people would seek to be so closely identified with an occupation so natural.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Le Grande Tombe de Villaroy, Île-de-France, France.

This monument in the Île-de-France region of France marks an ossuary which contains the remains of, among others, French poet Charles Peguy.

Peguy was a 32 year old Lieutenant in the 19^e compagnie du 276^e régiment d'infanterie when he was killed at the Chauconin-Neufmontiers on September 5, 1914. His remains, and that of 133 other French soldiers, killed in the same battle are interned in this common grave. The remains include those of solders who were part of the 231^e 246^e276^e regiments. There are, not surprisingly, over 30 remains from unidentified French soldiers.

The monument was erected in 1932.

Some Gave All

Some Gave All is one of a series of our blogs which are basically photographic in nature. The main blog, the "hub", is Holscher's Hub, which is a general photo site. The general blog that we have that receives the most viewing attention is Lex Anteinternet, which started off, and which also remains, a blog for the study of historical topics of the 1890-1920 time frame, but which also deals with about everything else. Our daily Wyoming history blog is Today In Wyoming's History.

We also have four specific photograph blogs with dedicated topics, those being Churches of the West, Courthouses of the West, Railhead and Painted Bricks. Those blogs are dedicated to photographs of the topics their title indicates (more or less). This blog, while a history minded one, fits into the latter category. It depicts monuments, mostly war memorials, that we've run across in our travels.

Many of these photos, indeed probably all of them, were taken as the opportunity arose. It'd be rare here to find a photo in which we had gone out specifically to photograph the memorial. Because of that, they will not have a professional quality, as we have to take the monument, including the light, weather, and other conditions, as we find them. Still, that serves the purpose, which is to record monuments and memorials that otherwise would likely be missed by most people.