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The military cemetery at Fort George contains sailors, soldiers and airmen from both world wars and the graves of soldiers and their families from the 19th and early 20th Century.

A wreath laid in the cemetery

Those from before and in between the world wars were the inhabitants of Fort George as part of the island's garrison and the majority died of natural causes and were buried in the fort's own cemetery.

The site is maintained by Treasury and Resources on behalf of both the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and its German equivalent.

Each of the gravestones has its own story to tell including a Canadian pilot who died in June 1944, three privates all called Jones from the North Staffordshire Regiment who died during 1916-1917 and Company Quartermaster Serjeant Pearse from the Royal Engineers who died on New Years Day 1918.

Graves from WW1 and earlier

There are also three members of the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry: Private Alfred La Sauce, Private Sydney Tostevin and Lance Corporal George Wilson.

Eddie Parks spoke to John Sylvester who looks after property on behalf of Treasury and Resources who said that for military historians their is a lot to see in one place.