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Flowering Sunday and remembering the First World War


George Grattan s grave at St Woolos, Newport
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone of Sergeant Albert Hood, South Wales Borderers, stands within the family plot.
He was the first local soldier to be buried at St Woolos during the Great War and a huge crowd lined the route of his funeral procession.
George Grattan s grave at St Woolos, Newport
He had taken part in a battle in the village of Gheluvelt in Belgium in October 1914, during which the South Wales Borderers had played a major role in preventing the Germans seizing the Channel ports.
Having been badly wounded he was brought back to Britain but died in hospital in London on January 7, 1915. Tragically, his older brother Charles was killed in Gallipoli in August 1915 and his younger brother Ernest at Loos in France in September. Both are commemorated on the family grave. ....

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