rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blanche Cameron Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > William Stanlake VC was buried in a public > grave, > > only recently rediscovered and a headstone put > up > > for him - by the Victoria Cross society not by > > Southwark Council who would have dug him up > > without even looking. > > Looking online at the Coldstream Guards message > board and others, it appears that Stanlake's grave > was in the middle of the very areas of tangled > undergrowth you want to save, so how could anyone > have known it was there or gone to pay their > respects? It seems that as with so many things > you swing through 180 degrees depending on which > argument suits your cause, it really doesn't help > your credibility. I searched out Stanlake's grave last year. As you say, it's among the scrub in the "wooded" bit of COC. The Coldstream Guards association has cleared a path and the immediate area around it so it's accessible. And they've put a stone up (outside CWGC's locus as it's a Crimean VC). Stanlake was a bit of a character by the sound of it. Died impoverished in Camberwell.