The Cross of Sacrifice. Radnor Street Cemetery, Swindon.

You do not have to visit the battlefields in France and Flanders, Gallipoli or the Middle East to view the War graves. There are 86 WWI graves in Swindon. Most are in the Swindon Cemetery in Radnor Street, where because of the number buried here, also has a Great Cross. This cross is seen in the British War Cemeteries all over the World. Men buried here died of wounds, died while in training or through influenza outbreak that struck at the end of the war. Two men buried here had been held as POW's in Germany and died on their retrun to England.

The stained glass memorial window at North Wiltshire Technical College. It commemorates the 44 men from the college who died in the Great War. Two are buried at Radnor Street Cemetery

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