11/6/2022 0 Comments Eastside superscribe![]() ![]() 1 The location of the bouleuterion and prytaneion within the peribolos implies that many aspects of Delphic civic life took place there, 2 while stoai (being commonly situated in other Greek cities within the agora) served as commercial spaces, law courts, philosophy schools and magisterial offices. The temenos of Delphi served as a public space in which the religious and festive sphere merged and mingled with the political realm and the city’s daily life. The British Cemetery covers an area of 4,732 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.Delphi differed from other Panhellenic sanctuaries, since, unlike Olympia, Nemea and Isthmia, it lay in direct contact with a permanent settlement which possessed its own political institutions. ![]() In Plots III, IV and V are many graves, identified collectively but not individually, which are marked by headstones superscribed: "Buried near this spot". Other special memorials record the names of 32 United Kingdom soldiers, buried by the enemy, whose graves could not be found. Of these, almost two-thirds from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials are erected to two soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed to be buried here. There are now over 2,000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. VERVINS GERMAN CEMETERY (390 German 20 Italian 15 French 7 British, May-September 1918). SERAUCOURT-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL CEMETERY FRENCH EXTENSION (13 British, February and March 1918). SEBONCOURT FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY (99 French 1 British, October 1918). MICHEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (Aisne 132 German 23 French 6 British, August-October 1918). REMIGNY FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY (33 French 13 British, February and March 1918). ORIGNY-EN-THIERACHE COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (200 German 13 French one American one British, October 1914). NOUVION-ET-CATILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (13 British, February-August 1918). MONCHY-LAGACHE CHURCHYARD (4 British, May 1917 and September 1918). MONCEAU-LES-LEUPS GERMAN CEMETERY (1 British, February 1918). MEZIERES-SUR-OISE GERMAN CEMETERY (200 German, 24 French, 1 British). MENNEVRET COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (312 British, August 1914, March, October and November 1918). MARLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (17 British, April-October 1918, besides French, Italian, Russian and Germans). MARCY CHATEAU GERMAN CEMETERY (2 British, September 1918). LESDINS FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY (4 British, September 1918). ![]() HIRSON COMMUNAL CEMETERY FRENCH and GERMAN EXTENSION (14 British, December 1917-October 1918). GRUGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY (2 British, January 1918). The Cemetery was made in 1920-26 by the concentration of graves from the battlefields and from other burial grounds, including:-īENAY MILITARY CEMETERY (3 British, February and March, 1918).ĬHEVRESIS-MONCEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY (116 German 40 French 3 British, March and April, 1918).ĬILLY GERMAN CEMETERY (6 British, September, 1918).ĬLASTRES NEW FRENCH MILITARY CEMETERY (14 British, February and March, 1918).ĬUGNY MILITARY CEMETERIES (Aisne, near Ham the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles held out and were annihilated here 24 March 1918) used by British and Germans, it contained 88 British graves of February-June 1918.ĭURY CHURCHYARD (Aisne 5 British, March 1918).ĮSSIGNY-LE-GRAND GERMAN CEMETERY (200 German and 99 British, March and April 1918, largely 36th (Ulster) Division).įONTAINE-NOTRE DAME GERMAN CEMETERY (Aisne, 900 Germans 12 French 2 British, March 1918).įONTAINE-UTERTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY GERMAN EXTENSION (500 German 23 British, March 1917-March 1918). II Corps passed through this neighbourhood on the Retreat from Mons in August, 1914, and it was lost in the early days of the Fifth Army retreat in March, 1918. ![]()
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