{"id":934,"date":"2011-01-06T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:57:39","slug":"grans-graveside-visit-a-life-long-ambition-fulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/grans-graveside-visit-a-life-long-ambition-fulfilled","title":{"rendered":"Gran’s Graveside Visit – A Life-long Ambition Fulfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a bright October day in 1999 when I travelled to France, with 5 family members, including my late gran who was 83 at the time. The journey was special because we were visiting my great-grandfather\u2019s grave where he\u2019d been buried in 1916.<\/p>\n

Accidentally killed during WWI, more than eighty years had passed before Henry James Weaver<\/a><\/strong> (1882-1916) finally had a relative visit his graveside. It had been my gran\u2019s life-long ambition to see where her father was buried, a father she\u2019d never known and who had died 10 days before she was born.<\/p>\n

Henry is buried in grave I.A.10. at Merville Communal Cemetery Extension and pictures from the visit<\/a><\/strong> can be seen in my website gallery. You can also read more about our visit here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The note attached to the poppy wreath which my gran laid at her father’s graveside<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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