Loos-en-Gohelle, France 26th Sept. 2024. The padre of HQ 51 Infantry Brigade leads members of 3 Scots Black Watch bearing coffins of two WWI soldiers.


Loos-en-Gohelle, France. 26th Sept. 2024. Reverend David Anderson CF, the Senior Chaplain of HQ 51 Infantry Brigade leads members of 3 Scots Black Watch Battalion at Loos British War Cemetery as they carry the coffins of two unknown WWI Scottish soldiers to their final resting place. The soldiers were buried with full military honours at the official opening of the cemetery's extension, only the second such extension of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France since the end of WWII.


Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Loos-en-Gohelle, France
Photo credit: © Christina Mackenzie / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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