Gravestone Gallery

Gravestone in the Graveyard of Winchester Cathedral

Gravestone of Thomas Thetcher, a Grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hampshire Militia who died of a violent fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot on 12th May 1764, aged 26 years - in the Graveyard of Winchester Cathedral. "An honest soldier never is forgot, Whether he die by Musket or by Pot". Date: circa 1906

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Operation Mincemeat - gravestone of Major Martin

Gravestone of Major William Martin in the Nuestra Senora cemetery in Huelva, Spain, whose body was found washed up on shore in Spain on 30th April 1943, an elaborate and successful deception by British forces in World War Two (codenamed Operation Mincemeat) to convince German high command that the Allies were planning to attack Greece and Sardinia in 1943 rather than Sicily, the actual objective. Major Martin never in fact existed and his body was that of Glyndwr Michael, a homeless man who had died in January 1943. Date: 1943

© Mary Evans / The National Archives, London. England

Basrelief gravestone of Susannna Albert, died 1565

Basrelief gravestone of Susannna Albert, died 1565, wife of Adam Albert, counsel and town clerk. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans