Ford Park Cemetery

Two small splashes of colour at Ford Park Cemetery.

This cemetery is less than a mile from the public air raid shelter, now underneath the University campus, which featured on yesterday's post. Inevitably some of the people killed on that night in 1941 are buried here and there is a memorial to them, along with all the other 1,200 civilians killed in the city during the raids, more than a quarter of whom are buried here.

John Cornelius, 83 years old, a retired aviation consultant living in Connecticut, was a 13 year old school boy in 1941, who lost both parents in the direct hit on the shelter. He and his brother were staying that night just outside the town, at his grandmother's house. John is significant contributor to the costs of the memorial and has made arrangements for his ashes to be laid to rest here in the family grave.