Arthur Woodhead - war grave

 

Many thanks to Margaret Sturdy for obtaining these photos of Arthur Woodhead's war grave in Belgium. She emailed:

I have been over to Belgium with my brother and his wife visiting the Battlefields of Flanders and I thought you might like the attached.

Ridgewood Cemetery is in beautiful surroundings, at the end of a narrow lane at the side of a wood and open fields on the other three sides. The inscription is becoming a little faded but they do replace them when they get too far gone - it reads: “3971 Lance Cpl A Woodhead DCM 2nd Bn Australian Inf 28th March 1918”

The personal inscription on the bottom reads: “He gave his life at duty’s call beloved by comrades one and all”.

We also visited Frederick Waller’s grave the third son of Emily Kate Laister.