A Project in Remembrance and Reflection

 

Remembering the dead is a means of keeping their memory alive but

remembering those who gave their lives for others is a means by which all

of us can recognise and acknowledge the heroic efforts they made on our

behalf.

The project aims to research the records of all those in different cemetery

who died in either of the World Wars in order to document their service

and strive to ensure that their efforts will not have been in vain, given that

they made the supreme sacrifice. 

In addition to the contribution of project members, it will be necessary to

secure voluntary youth organisations, Schools or organisations if they would like to adopt a war grave to help maintain the graves and augment the efforts being made by any of the families who are still alive. This will be a small price to pay to secure a lasting memorial to those who died that we might live.

One of the ways in which we do this is by caring for and maintaining the graves of those who died in the World Wars. This includes CWG and family plots which a family member is remembered on. Regenerate war graves has decided to embark on a project to research and examine the World War graves in Seagoe Cemetery, Seagoe Church of Ireland Cemetery and the Parish of Drumcree  (Drumcree COI and Drumcree Roman Catholic) Churchyards

Our first efforts were directed at two overgrown graves in Seagoe Cemetery with military Interest from the 1890s. In the absence of any knowledge about the families, we tended the graves and made them presentable. In the weeks that followed we sought to engage the help of others and found, to our astonishment, that there were an additional 16 graves from World Wars 1 and 2. We researched these and, with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website, we have now uncovered another 22 graves.

We have now researching 69 war graves in all four cemeteries and do not yet know if there are families still in existence to visit and care for these graves, some of which are in need of attention. The project now aims to research the records of all those in the cemetery who died in either of the World Wars in order to document their service and strive to ensure that their efforts will not have been in vain, given that they made the supreme sacrifice.

 

In addition to the contribution of project members, it will be necessary to secure voluntary youth organisations, Schools or organisations if they would like to adopt a war grave to help maintain the graves and augment the efforts being made by any of the families who are still alive. This will be a small price to pay to secure a lasting memorial to those who died that we might live.

 

In addition to the contribution of project members, it will be necessary to

secure voluntary youth organisations, Schools or organisations if they would like to adopt a war grave to help maintain the graves and augment the efforts being made by any of the families who are still alive. This will be a small price to pay to secure a lasting memorial to those who died that we might live.