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May 2021
Harrogate's Stonefall Cemetery is holding free tours on Friday next week as part of a bid to encourage more visitors to British war graves.
With covid preventing people travelling to pay their respects to fallen soldiers in France and Belgium, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission is highlighting alternatives in this country.
Stonefall is one of the largest war grave sites in northern England and one of only five directly maintained by the commission.
It therefore looks very similar to sites abroad, with rows of immaculately maintained white graves of even size.
Junior soldiers at Harrogate's Army Foundation College, who usually travel to war graves in Normandy, recently visited Stonefall and the commission hopes the covid travel restrictions will encourage others to do likewise.
Elizabeth Smith, public engagement coordinator for the commission in the north-east, said:
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