All this talk of cemeteries reminds me of Reg.

Reg was a nice old bloke, one of the last survivors of one of the Pals battalions who went over the bags on the First Day of the Somme.
I'd met him a couple of times and he mentioned that he'd often expressed the wish to his family, that, when he died, he wanted his ashes scattered at Serre Military Cemetery, because that's where he nearly ended up and that's where all his mates were.
About six months after I last saw him, I heard from another contact that Reg had died and that his wishes had been ignored and he'd been buried in a cemetery local to his home.

While I can understand the family wanting to keep together, but I feel sad that Reg never got his wish.

Such is life.

W