Monday, July 15, 2013

British Cemetery of Bralo


Up in the mountains near here, on the outskirts of the village of Gravia is a 'corner of a foreign field that is forever England.' Or more specifically Britain and Russia. It's the British Cemetery of Bralo and it houses the graves of 102 soldiers who died during the First World War-most of them, apparently, from the influenza epidemic which hit the hospital where they had been sent to recover from war injuries. 
It's amazingly well-maintained and really does look like a little bit of England in the middle of the Greek countryside. 

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