A Mystery Resolved


I seemed to have solved the little mystery regard-ing the two entries in the register for the unknown sailor buried in Oxwich (see last month’s issue of The BAY Exploring Swansea’s Graveyards). I made a phone call to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission, in Kent and it would seem that there was just the one burial. The curate must have been having some high jinks and entered the burial twice in the register.


Copyright – The Bay Magazine – Winter 2016

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