Lieutenant Leventhorpe was born 20th April 1893, at Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India, the son of Mr John Bonfoy Leventhorpe, of the Public Works Department, Government of India, and Mrs Leventhorpe, of 18, St Andrews Road,...
312181 - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own). By John Gibbons. In the years immediately prior to the partition of Ireland, during the Irish War of Independence, the British Army maintained garrisons in many Irish towns One...
The following was the report of his death in the local paper: “On Tuesday January 24 1882 there passed away from among us one whose services though of the humblest, were so faithfully and heartily rendered...
Back in the Autumn of 2007 it was agreed that the Wyatt Tomb endowment and responsibility for its application, should be transferred to the Friends of Foster Hill Road from the Bedford Society. This arrangement...
Bedford Foster Hill Road Cemetery has become one of the prettiest cemeteries in England, and is beautifully cared for by the ground-staff and the Friends of Bedford Cemetery. It was opened in...
John Bull was born in 1803, at Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire. As a young man, as well as in later life, he travelled abroad and saw a good deal of the world. In 1855-1859, he lived near...
When, in the interests of public health, church and chapel graveyards were closed for burials, Bedford’s first public cemetery at Foster Hill Road was opened in 1855. The first appointed Superintendent/Registrar was Thomas Dann. He,...
Foster Hill Road Cemetery opened on the 6th June 1855. It was created as a solution to the insanitary conditions of the overstretched churchyards. The chosen site for the new cemetery is on a hillside with...
A grave that has intrigued many of us for some while is that of Christopher Neil Mlynarczyk. We have done some research on him and discovered that he was born in 1951, and died aged...
The Daughters of the Holy Ghost (DHG) were a teaching order of nuns based in a convent at St Brieuc in Brittany. When, in the early 1900s, the French government introduced severe anti-clerical laws intended...