February 2023: This month’s invited speaker is Suzie Harrison who told us about the history of the Cambridge American Cemetery at Madingley. The meeting was also broadcast via Zoom.
Suzie Harrison, interpretive guide for the ABMC* writes: “Why are they buried here?” is a question often heard at Cambridge American Cemetery. This talk will fill in some of the background to the *American Battle Monuments Commission and its beginnings after WWI. ABMC is the American equivalent to our own CWGC. We will then move forward in time to WWII and the cemetery on Madingley Hill in particular:
- ‘Why is the cemetery here?’
- ‘Who are they?’
- ‘Were they brought back from France?’
In this talk we hope to answer these and some of the questions that you never knew you wanted to ask. We also hope to inspire you to visit the actual site, so as to delve into the individual stories of these young men and women. They left from every corner of the United States, and from every walk of life, to fight for freedom over here, never imagining that they would be buried forever in British soil. For the record: US Memorial Day was on 29 May 2023
| Event type: | Meeting - past event |
| Date: | Wednesday 15th February 2023 |
| Time: | 2:30 pm |
| Group: | monthly speaker meeting |