Week 51 - Brookwood Cemetery

52 Week Challenge, Week 51 – Brookwood Cemetery

Our grandchildren are visiting for Christmas and with the current situation it is difficult to find things, other than TV’s and screens, to keep them entertained and to get them outdoors. There are only so many country walks you can take.

They went with my husband to the grave of my in-laws this week where they laid a Christmas wreath and got to talking about the military cemetery at Brookwood and decided they would like to see it.

So we spent a couple of hours walking around the cemetery and I was surprised how engaged they were. What struck them most was how young these men and women had been when they were killed and that so many of them were remembered by name only as they had been lost at sea.

Fortunately the impact won’t be lasting but it might give Christmas a bit of perspective.