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THE FARNBOROUGH SOCIETY preserving the past, shaping the future

Newsletter: Issue 18

August 2017

RECENT EVENTS AND NEWS

A word from the Chairman

It was a privilege to be elected as Chairman of The Farnborough Society at the AGM on the 11th May. My plan is to continue the good work that the society has undertaken in prior years under the chairmanship of Ted Gardner. I would like to thank Ted on behalf of the society for his hard work over the years and wish him well in his future endeavours.

As way of introduction I can tell you that I have lived in Farnborough for the last 10 years and recognise that makes me a newcomer compared to many of the members that I have spoken with. I retired from my role as a senior executive in a global business last year and have plunged headlong into the voluntary sector in Farnborough where I am now a school governor and director of two local charities. You may also see me around town driving minibuses for RVS and providing transportation to medical appointments with Farnborough Neighbourcare.

As well as continuing to provide interesting events for the members and providing input on planning matters to Rushmoor Borough Council, I would like to broaden the membership of the society and attract some younger people to participate in what we do. If any of you have ideas on how to achieve that goal or know of people who may be interested in joining us then I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Thank you for your continued support of the society and I look forward to meeting more of you at future events.

Peter Hurst, Chaiman

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VISIT TO FARNBOROUGH LIBRARY

by Jenny Murray

Twenty-one members had a very enjoyable and informative tour of Farnborough Library in the company of

library manager Rob Bealey. He started by giving us an

overview of recent developments in the library, and the

challenges it faces in the future. Cuts in funding mean that

libraries everywhere have to maximise their resources and

look at ways to generate income.

Part of this involves engaging with other agencies, and one

way they have done this is to provide space for a café within

the library. This is run by Parkside, an Aldershot-based

charity which provides support services for people with

learning disabilities, giving young people experience of the

work environment and providing a useful step towards mainstream employment.

What was once an under-used meetings room is now used by

Hampshire County Council adult services to provide training

and support for young people looking for work. Smaller

rooms are used for a variety of educational and leisure

courses which provide income for the library.

Our visit continued with a look at the Children's Library,

which since a recent refurbishment has a multi-coloured

chequerboard carpet and brightly painted child-sized

furniture. Each week the library holds a Baby Rhyme Time

for the under-twos and a storytime for under-fives. For older children there is a Code Club, and a 'Let's Build'

Construction Club using Lego (they cannot call it a Lego Club for

copyright reasons!). These clubs are run by volunteers. During the

summer, extra volunteers are recruited to help with a holiday

reading scheme to encourage children to continue reading.

Volunteers also run a number of clubs for adults, including a book

group, Craft and Chat, Knit and Natter, and a board game club.

More are planned for the future, including a local studies group if

a volunteer can be recruited to run it.

Rob talked about other ways in which the library has had to cut

costs. Mobile libraries were expensive to run and under-used, so

these have been phased out and replaced by the Home Library Service, using volunteers to deliver books to

the homes of those unable to get to a library. Housebound readers and others can also use E-books, which may

be temporarily downloaded from the library website free of charge. The use of DVDs and music CDs has

declined dramatically and no longer provides useful revenue, so these are being phased out.

Library users now issue and return their own books at self-service units, freeing staff for other duties.

We then looked at the Aviation Collection followed by the Local History Collection (which now sadly has no

specialist member of staff). The library holds the News and Mail on microfiche back as far as 1894, as well as

copies of Flight Magazine dating back to 1909.

Computers are available in the library and are well-used by students and those without internet access at

home. Assistance is given when needed by library staff, and there are plans for volunteers to be recruited to

give more in-depth help where necessary.

We came away with an impression of a vibrant, dynamic library which despite financial constraints and the

changing needs of users, will continue to respond well to the challenges ahead.

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THE RUSHMOOR LOCAL PLAN

A Presentation by Keith Holland, Louise Piper and Jane Reeves

Keith and his team gave us an overview of the process that has resulted in the draft document recently out to consultation, its content and what happens after the consultation.

This new Plan is more comprehensive than the Rushmoor Core Strategy, which was adopted in 2011, drawing together elements of a number of existing policies into one document so that the planning process will become much easier for the public and planning officers to navigate. It will cover the period 2014-2032 and incorporate both

strategic and detailed (i.e. development management) policies.

The ‘Draft Submission’ is based on extensive consultation during earlier stages of the process and is believed to be ‘sound’. Any comments received during this consultation will be considered by a Planning Inspector, who will look at whether the Plan meets legal requirements, whether it is in fact ‘sound’ (insofar as it was positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy) and whether it meets the Duty to Cooperate requirement with regard to engagement with neighbouring authorities and statutory bodies.

One key element of the plan is housing. Rushmoor forms part of a Housing Market Area with Surrey Heath and Hart, and the total objectively assessed housing need across the combined area has been determined to be 1,200 dwellings per annum. Rushmoor’s share is assessed at a total of at least 7,850 new homes by 2032. The Plan aims to encourage a mix of dwelling types and tenures, including affordable housing, with good local neighbourhood facilities.

The Spatial Strategy within the Plan lays out what will be built, where and when, with a focus on new development within defined urban areas. Much of this housing is already being provided in the Wellesley development but a significant amount of new housing will come about as part of Aldershot and Farnborough town centre regeneration. At the same time, North Camp’s identity as a distinct district centre will be protected.

The Plan encompasses infrastructure, community, facilities and transport, aiming to create high quality, distinctive environments that value our heritage while promoting good design to create pleasant living conditions indoors and out, with plenty of green space and leisure facilities.

It also aims to create prosperous communities, encouraging economic growth and investment. Strategic and locally important employment sites, such as Farnborough Business Park, Cody Technology Park and the East Aldershot Industrial Cluster, will be protected, and a new emphasis placed on skills, training and employment.

Because of Rushmoor’s proximity to the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area, all development must mitigate against adverse impact by identifying Suitable Alternative Green Space and making a financial contribution under Section 106 of the 1990 Town & Country Planning Act. These funds will be invested in green infrastructure and biodiversity.

With regard to Farnborough town centre, the Plan seeks to maintain or ideally enhance its vitality and viability, with a focus on retail, leisure, entertainment, culture, restaurants and cafes, plus other service uses, and to develop an evening economy. It supports office and residential development and seeks to improve accessibility.

A key part of Farnborough town centre’s regeneration will be the Civic Quarter, where a mixed-use development is proposed combining community, civic and leisure uses with a central green space, to serve as a venue for events and activities, substantial residential development and improved pedestrian and cycle connectivity between the town centre and business park. Since the Masterplan SPD was published in 2015, a memorandum of understanding has been drawn up between the landowners to work together and AECOM has been appointed to develop a detailed masterplan, which is scheduled to be drafted in early Autumn, along with plans for the first phase, at the former Police Station site.

Other important sites in Farnborough are Meudon House, where some 300 residential units are proposed, and The Crescent, in Southwood, where a further 150 dwellings are proposed.

Throughout the Local Plan, health and wellbeing are taken into account. It promotes healthy housing, through high standards of design to ensure adequate indoor and outdoor space, affordable homes, and accessible/adaptable housing for the elderly and disabled. It seeks to encourage active travel and sustainable transport. It also aims to create a healthy environment by minimising pollution, reducing flood risk, providing open/green space for sport and recreation, and by promoting biodiversity. And it aims to create vibrant neighbourhoods by providing local employment, high-quality design, accessible streets/ spaces and safe communities.

The Farnborough Society undertook to submit a report in response to the consultation, which ended 21st July 2017. The submission is scheduled to go to the Planning Inspectorate in November and it is anticipated that the examination will take place early in 2018, with adoption later in 2018.

Details of the Plan can be found at: www.rushmoor.gov.uk/newlocalplan

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VISIT TO THE SHAH JAHAN MOSQUE IN WOKING

by Jenny Murray

In June 2017, twenty-three members and friends of the Society visited the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking. This is the earliest purpose-built mosque in Europe, if we exclude those built by the Moors of Islamic Spain prior to 1492.

The mosque was founded by Dr Gottleib Leitner, a German Jew who converted to Christianity and appears never to have practiced Islam. He was appointed Head of Punjab University and after many years in India decided to settle in England and set up an Oriental Institute. He found a suitable site in Woking, within easy reach of London by train. At this time there were very few Muslims in England, and these were mostly British converts. However Dr.Leitner wanted a mosque to be attached to the Institute, and he persuaded the female ruler of Bhopal, the Begum Shah Jahan, to provide much of the money needed.

A Scottish architect, W.I.Chambers was chosen and the building was completed in 1889 . At first it was used mainly by foreign visitors. The Muslim servants of Queen Victoria, including her favourite Abdul Karim would come to the mosque from Windsor.

It was built in the Indian rather than Arabic style, and as is the custom in mosques it is aligned towards Mecca. The front of the building is divided into three bays, which hold four turrets each holding a green sphere and a golden finial. The central bay contains a large ogee arch with arabesque inlay in gold on a green background. Behind this rises a large copper dome, originally painted white but now green, supporting a golden crescent. There is no minaret.

After removing our shoes we entered the building through a central quatrefoil doorway. In the wall straight ahead is the Mihrab, a recess where the Imam stands when leading the prayers. Next to this is a small platform which may be used for sermons. The interior architecture, like the exterior is beautifully symmetrical and Mughal in style. The decoration is simple and consists almost entirely of highly decorative Arabic calligraphy describing the 99 other names for God (Allah being the first one).

The Head of Learning, Shayk Naveed Arif explained to us that Muslims pray five times daily, starting at dawn and ending before midnight. The exact times will vary according to the position of the sun, and are displayed on five wooden clockfaces on the wall, with a sixth clock showing the time of the Friday prayers. At this mosque men and women can pray together, although in separate rows so as not to be a distraction to each other.

This building will only hold 50 worshippers at a time. As the Muslim population grew, two further prayer rooms were added by converting storerooms once used by an adjoining factory, which can be reached through a garden. The original building is usually now only used for the early morning prayers when numbers are fairly small. The new prayer rooms will hold up to 2,000 worshippers, but even this is now not always enough during Friday prayers and important occasions such as Eid, which marks the end of Ramadan. The mosque authorities would like to build more facilities but are constrained by Tree Preservation Orders and the local council's requirement that the mosque can be seen from the nearby railway line.

Our visit took place during the last few days of Ramadan, and in each of the larger prayer rooms an area had been curtained off (one for men and one for women) so that those who wished to could fast and pray for 24 hours or more in seclusion.

There was plenty of time for our questions. Mr Arif and the mosque Manager Muhammed Habib talked frankly about the recent terrorist activity and the need for mosques to condemn all acts of violence as well as looking out for any extremist tendencies within their membership. They also told us something of the work that they do in the wider community. Last year they received 100 school visits. They host Police

Training Days and hold open days. They work closely with the Anglican church across the road and by welcoming

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groups such as ours they do all they can to foster understanding between people of all faiths and none.

In one of the large prayer rooms we met a mosque volunteer. Jamil came originally from Kashmir and sported a splendid hat. He recited a prayer in Arabic and English and then gave a reading from the Quran which had much in common with parts of the Old Testament.

We then moved on to a third building, the Sir Salah Jang Memorial Hall. This was built around the same time as the mosque, in an attractive Victorian Islamic style. On the first floor is a flat for the Imam, and two further flats which help to provide an income for the mosque. On the ground floor there is a meeting room for the community, and a library of religious books in Arabic and English. Our visit ended here, with refreshments which our hosts very generously supplied but were unable to share in as they were observing Ramadan.

PROPOSED EVENTS

Members who attended the tour of the funeral parlour and crematorium reported

that it was extremely interesting, to the extent that one member has gone on to

arrange the same tour for another community organisation. Because of the

sensitivity of the subject, we did not consider it appropriate to write and article

describing the tour in detail, but Cooperative Funeralcare have offered to repeat the

tour if there is sufficient interest. Please contact Barbara if you would like to take

advantage of that offer.

Another tour we are hoping to repeat is a visit to Sandhurst Military Academy.

However, unlike our last visit, there is now a charge: £15 per person. This will cover

all the main points of interest plus coffee/tea and biscuits. Given the cost, we felt we

should gauge interest before proceeding with arrangements and perhaps suffering

the embarrassment of low turnout, so if you would be interested—and this highly

recommended for all history-buffs—please let Barbara know:

barbara@pbhurst or 01252 405149

AGM

In a departure from previous years, we decided to hold our AGM as a

stand-alone event, both to ensure that the focus was on the business in

hand and to gauge the interest of members in the running of the society.

Unfortunately, the turnout was very low, not helped by inclement

weather, so we will again invite guest speakers in future. If you have any

suggestions for topics or speakers, do please let us know.

Our AGM business was very quickly concluded with no new volunteers

coming forward with offers of help, despite an impassioned plea from the

newly appointed Chairman.

However, it may well be that some members who were unable to attend

might nevertheless be interested in taking a more active role. If you

have been thinking about getting involved and would like the opportunity

to discuss options, Chairman Peter Hurst would be happy to meet you,

without obligation, for coffee and a chat:

peter@pbhurst.com

07971 848906

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PLANNING REPORT

Len Amos, Chairman

This has been a busy time in planning, with drafts of both the Rushmoor Local Plan and the Car and Cycle Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document coming forward for consultation.

Following a meeting to explore how best to deal with planning issues, we will now convene meetings at the request of members, to discuss issues of concern. The list of weekly planning applications will be distributed to anyone who is interested and any comments fed back to me. Addressing important matters such as the Local Plan and the Civic Quarter will be undertaken by groups coming together specifically for that purpose, with each member free to focus on areas of interest to them, if they don’t wish to tackle the entire project. In this

way, we hope to make our responses more reflective of TFS membership as a whole and to spread the burden of what can be very big tasks.

Proposals for the Civic Quarter are causing AECOM, the master-planners, considerable problems. The site simply isn’t big enough to accommodate the many facilities that

the partners in this project would like, and that our town so desperately needs.

As plans for Hartland Village progress, TFS continues to protest about the cessation of the number 9 bus service, intended to serve the site.

Also in Hart, I am not hesitate to object if the impact on Rushmoor’s infrastructure will be unacceptable. I am also concerned that a valuable green corridor through the site may be lost.

Plans for some 300 dwellings at the former IBM offices at Meudon House have stalled, partly because the proposal originally submitted was unsatisfactory, both in terms of density and height, and partly due to a lack of Suitable Al-ternative Green Space to mitigate the impact on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area, something required of all new development in Rushmoor.

A development at The Old Studios in Lynchford Road has been refused because it would involve demolition of a historic Victori-an range of buildings. The developer is drawing up new proposals for a care facility.

Thomson House has been sold on again, and the new developer has submitted a revised planning application changing the mix of dwelling types and reducing the additional building by one storey. Regrettably, there is to be no affordable housing on the site, the developer having argued that its provision would make the project financially unviable.

Artist’s Impression of the Civic Quarter

Meudon House

The Old Studios

Hartland Village Site (Pyestock)

Thomson House

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The Briarwood site, in Sorrell Close, has been acquired by developers after remaining vacant since its closure as an NHS halfway house for mental health patients. Discussions are taking place with Planning Officers on proposals to build flats, though a planning application isn’t expected for several months; development of this site is complicated by the many trees with TPOs on them.

Plans are moving ahead for Lafosse Park, a retirement village on land at Farnborough Hill. The units will be for sale rather than rent, and facilities will include a restaurant and bar that will be open to the public. TFS is in favour of the development but we believe that Planning Officers will recommend rejection when it comes before the Development Management Committee, on the grounds that it will mean the loss of green space. However, the small area that will be sacrificed is not visible from the road, nor accessible to the

public.

Redevelopment plans for The Crescent Business Park, in Southwood, suffered a setback when the DMC refused an application to build 159 dwellings of all types and tenures, citing concerns about traffic, notably the safety of the access onto Southwood Road and the impact of additional traffic on already highly congested roads locally. The Farnborough Society objected on exactly these grounds.

We managed to complete our report in response to the draft Rushmoor Local Plan just before the consultation period ended. Several members undertook to examine different areas in the plan and share their thoughts. We simply couldn’t have completed this huge task in the limited time-frame without their valuable contribution and I am

extremely grateful to all those who took the time and trouble to help us.

The report has now been posted on the TFS website:

http://thefarnboroughsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Rushmoor-Local-Plan-Response.pdf

If you are interested in joining the Planning Group, please contact me: leonardamos57@yahoo.co.uk or

07944 808039

HELP!

Do you have some time to spare? If so, why not put it to good use by volunteering to help run The

Farnborough Society? We know you value the society because you’ve chosen to join and because so many

of you come along to the events we organise, and we fully appreciate your support, but we really need more

help to run things. There are several ways you could help:

If you enjoy writing, you might consider writing articles, either on subjects that will be of interest to

TFS members or on our events for the website.

If you are interested in planning and development, you might consider joining the Planning Group.

If you are a good organiser, you might consider helping to organise events.

If you have vision and ideas, you might consider joining the Executive Committee.

If you have experience of advertising and promotion, you might consider helping to promote the

society and its activities

If you have good administration skills, you might consider the role of Minute Secretary.

Whatever your skills and experience, you probably have something valuable to offer. Barbara would be

happy to chat over coffee, and you’d be welcome to attend Executive Committee meetings as an observer.

barbara@pbhurst.com or 01252 405149

Site Map of The Crescent Business Park

Briarwood

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

SUGGESTIONS FOR EVENTS

If you have any thoughts on topics for talks, places to visit or suggested routes for

guided walks, please tell us. This is your society and we rely on you to let us know what

we can offer you that will enhance your experience.

We would also welcome constructive criticism, so please tell us if you can see room for

improvement:

barbara@pbhurst.com or 01252 405149

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE FARNBOROUGH SOCIETY

Local company Linkup Ltd has made us a very generous offer. Not only

are we given special rates, but for every TFS polo shirt or fleece they sell, they will donate £1

to TFS.

Anyone who does not have a computer, can call Barbara, who will be happy to make alternative

arrangements: 01252 405149

You can place your order at:

https://stores.linkupltd.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=84

9th August 7.00pm

Air Ambulance: a presentation on the invaluable service behind the familiar yellow helicopters, until recently flown by Prince William.

21st September 7.00pm

St John Ambulance: find out more about this wide-ranging and surprising organisation. Did you know they have an eye hospital in

18th October 7.00pm

Focus on Farnborough: meet the new CEO of Rushmoor Borough Council, Paul Shackley, who will continue the annual update provided by his predecessor.

22nd November 7.00pm

Fraud: learn about the latest scams and how to protect yourself, with Citizens Advice, Trading Standards and the Police. It’s not only the

December (date TBA) 7.00pm

Local Flora and Fauna: join Paul Howe of the Urban Wildlife Group for an exploration of our wildlife and enter his special Christmas Quiz. Festive treats in the offing.

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SAMUEL FRANKLIN LESLIE CODY 1895-1917

by TFS member Julie Clist

Samuel Franklin Leslie (Frankie) Cody was the only son of the pioneer aviator “Colonel” Samuel Cody. He was born in September 1895 and was killed near Ypres in the First World War in 1917.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

A Remembrance Service was organised by Royal Cody Ghent Rifle Club on 23 January 2017 to mark the centenary of the death of Second Lieutenant Samuel Franklin Leslie (Frankie) Cody. This service took place at Perth Cemetery – China Wall in Zillebeke, south east of Ypres where he is buried.

This service was attended by the British Ambassador to Belgium and representatives of the local authority. Two buglers from Ypres, who sound the Last Post nightly at the Menin Gate, were there to sound the Last Post and members of the Rifle Club fired a salute.

EARLY LIFE

In 1892, Samuel Cody, his “partner” Lela King (they were not married, her real name being Elizabeth Mary King) and her children moved to France and took their sharp-shooting show all over the country. The following year Cody challenged a cyclist to race against him on a horse. Cody won and developed similar challenges into a new entertainment.

The family’s travels with this entertainment took them not only around France but also to Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. It was in Basle in Switzerland that Lela gave birth to Samuel Franklin Leslie Cody (Frankie) on 7 September 1895. Frankie would be Cody’s only child, although Frankie had half brothers and a half sister who were

Lela’s children and more than 10 years his senior.

Frankie and Lela stayed in Switzerland for a year before resuming their travels with the family around Europe. The family returned to England in 1897. From an early age Frankie appeared in his parents’ trick shooting and riding acts in the circus.

Frankie attended a Grammar school in Farnborough, Hants when his father was invited by the army to further his man-lifting kites. Colonel Cody was later to develop and build his aeroplane at

Farnborough and become the first man to fly an aeroplane in England. There are photos at the Imperial War Museum of Cody in his Mark IIE aeroplane (nicknamed Omnibus) on the ground with a young Frankie as one of the four passengers.

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

In April 1913, aged 17, Frankie married Maud Helière Carrol who was born in 1892. His occupation is given as Aeroplane Mechanic. A few months later in August 1913 Colonel Cody was killed.

Frankie’s son Samuel Franklin Cody was born on 31 October 1913. Maud Cody outlived her husband by more than 50 years, dying in 1970. She is buried in Ash Cemetery with members of her family [including her parents, James and Elizabeth Carroll]. Maud and Frankie’s son, Samuel died in January 1995.

MILITARY SERVICE

In 1914, soon after his 19th birthday, Frankie enlisted into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Blackdown, Military Battalion. Later he transferred to Motor Machine Guns and to the Royal Field Artillery before finally transferring to the Royal Flying Corps on the 19th June 1915.

His Pilot’s licence, number 1797, was issued on 28th September 1915. His Certificate was earned flying a Maurice

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Farman Biplane at the British Flying School, Le Crotoy, France. This is situated at the mouth of the River Somme on the coast of Northern France, not far from the major military base at Etaples.

0n 1st March 1916 Frankie was promoted to Corporal. Three months later on 1st June 1916 he was promoted to Sergeant. He was posted to No 6 Reserve Squadron on the 17th August 1916, before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 10 October 1916. He was then posted to 41st Squadron, based at Abeele, some 15 miles west of Ypres, near the French/Belgian border.

DEATH

In mid-January, Major General Trenchard inspected the squadrons at the aerodrome at Abeele when Frankie was stationed there. Frankie left Abeele aerodrome at 2:24 pm on 23 January 1917 and was seen in combat with four enemy aeroplanes (Albatross and Roland) east of Boesinghe, after which he spiralled down in a nose dive and died

above Passchendaele. He was the first casualty from his squadron.

Frankie was initially buried in Houthuist German Cemetery (this was confirmed by an enquiry dropped over enemy lines). He was the only British casualty buried there, along with approximately 1000 German soldiers.

At the time of Frankie’s death in 1917, the CWGC gives his wife’s address as Church Road, Aldershot. Frankie is commemorated at the Ash War Memorial in the Memorial Garden on Ash Hill Road, Ash, and on the Memorial in St Mary’s Church, Ash Vale.

There is also a memorial tablet in his honour on the grave of his father in the Aldershot Military Cemetery, headed by the RFC emblem. This reads “In Loving Memory of 2nd Lieutenant SAMUEL FRANKLIN LESLIE CODY. R.F.C., The dearly beloved youngest son of Samuel Franklin and Lela Marie Cody, Born 7th September 1895; Fell in action fighting four enemy machines 23 January 1917. Pro Patria”

REBURIAL

After the war, the Imperial War Graves Commission had the mammoth task of bringing together Commonwealth casualties and removing the bodies of other nationalities from its designated War Cemeteries.

The Perth-China Wall cemetery was begun by French troops in November 1914 (the French graves were removed after the Armistice) and was adopted by the 2nd Scottish Rifles in June 1917. Its names were taken from ‘Perth’ as the predecessors of the 2nd Scottish Rifles were raised in Perth and ‘China Wall’ from the communication trench nearby known as the Great Wall of China.

After the Armistice, graves were brought in from the battlefields around Ypres, from a number of smaller cemeteries and from 20 German cemeteries and reburied in this cemetery.

Frankie was reburied here in October 1924 (as shown on the Certificate of Exhumation and Reburial). A group of 14 soldiers who were killed in 1914 were reinterred in the same row in February 1925.

There are now 2791 Commonwealth burials including 1369 unknowns in this cemetery. There are special memorials to 104 casualties buried in the cemeteries concentrated here, whose graves could not be found.

Sources

WO1BE Greatwar.be

Great War Forum

Colonel Cody and the Flying Cathedral by Garry Jenkins

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide - the Ypres Salient

Airfields and Airmen - Ypres

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TFS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chairman Peter Hurst peter@pbhurst.com

07971 848906

Vice Chairman Len Amos leonardamos57@yahoo.co.uk

07944 808039

Treasurer Tom McManners help@ttca.co.uk

07966 422870

Secretary Barbara Hurst barbara@pbhurst.com

01252 405149

Membership Secretary Jenny Murray jenny@pandjmurray.plus.com

01252 512823

Webmaster Jo Gosney jo.gosney@btconnect.com

01252 542436

Planning Group Leader Len Amos leonardamos57@yahoo.co.uk

07944 808039

Committee Members Clive Grattan clive.grattan@rushmoor.gov.uk

07510 524074

Eileen O'Connell eileen.oconnell2@ntlworld.com

Julie Clist julie.clist@yahoo.com

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