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  • October 25th, 2005. Post Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Jackie Muse, curator, custodian and carer of the cemetery tells his evacuation story outside the shrine at St. Roch's cemetery. <br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Oct,  2005.New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Flooded but not looted. 'City of the Dead.' The shrine at St. Roch's cemetery where people claim to have been cured miraculously by praying to Saint Roch. Once cured people have left their shoes, braces, calipers, crutches, replica body parts and casts of their anatomy allegedly cured by a visit to the shrine. Gothic style Chapel and Campo Santo cemetery built in 1874.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 3rd November, 2005. Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.
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  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
 Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water. Just beyond the smashed cemetery a cruise ship is moored alongside the Mississippi River, housing hundreds of recovery workers.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina. <br />
Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
 Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, The Somme, Picardy, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.<br />
The Battle of the Somme was the regiment's first major engagement, and during an assault that lasted approximately 30 minutes the regiment was all but wiped out. Purchased in 1921 by the people of Newfoundland, the memorial site is the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside of Canada.<br />
The site also contains a number of memorials as well as four cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; that of Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the mass burial site of Hunter's Cemetery.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, The Somme, Picardy, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.<br />
The Battle of the Somme was the regiment's first major engagement, and during an assault that lasted approximately 30 minutes the regiment was all but wiped out. Purchased in 1921 by the people of Newfoundland, the memorial site is the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside of Canada.<br />
The site also contains a number of memorials as well as four cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; that of Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the mass burial site of Hunter's Cemetery.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance034.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, The Somme, Picardy, France. Remembrance Sunday.<br />
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is dedicated to the commemoration of Dominion of Newfoundland forces members who were killed during World War I. The 74-acre (300,000 m2) preserved battlefield park encompasses the grounds over which the Newfoundland Regiment made their unsuccessful attack on 1 July 1916 during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.<br />
The Battle of the Somme was the regiment's first major engagement, and during an assault that lasted approximately 30 minutes the regiment was all but wiped out. Purchased in 1921 by the people of Newfoundland, the memorial site is the largest battalion memorial on the Western Front, and the largest area of the Somme battlefield that has been preserved. Along with preserved trench lines, there are a number of memorials and cemeteries contained within the site. Opened by British Field Marshal Earl Haig in 1925, the memorial site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside of Canada.<br />
The site also contains a number of memorials as well as four cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; that of Y Ravine Cemetery, Hawthorn Ridge Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 and the mass burial site of Hunter's Cemetery.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance033.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance012.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance004.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance003.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery009.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    B&W-08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance039.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance048.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance047.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance046.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance044.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance041.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance039.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance010.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance008.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance005.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance002.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery013.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery011.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery010.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery007.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery005.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10nov18-Serre rd Cemetery004.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    B&W-08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance043.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance045.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance038.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance015.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance014.jpg
  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
Just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater lie the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 November 2020. Ovillers Cemetery, The Somme, Ovillers, France.<br />
The marker for Captain John C Lauder, son of Britain most famous singer at the time of his death. His body lied just across the valley from Lochnagar Crater along with the remains of 3,440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,480 of the burials are unidentified. The cemetery also contains the graves of 120 fallen French servicemen. Many of the casualties occured the first day of the Battle off the Somme, July 1st 1916 when British troops attempted to take the towns of ovillers and la Boisselle after detonating an enormous mine at Lochnagar. Heavily fortified German positions annihilated the British advance leaving in excess of 6,000 casualties on the first day of the battle of the Somme. In total there were over 1 million casualties during the battle with over 60,000 casualties on July 1st 1916.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    08nov20-Somme WW1 Remembrance006.jpg
  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 10 November 2018. Serre Road Cemetery No.1, near Serre, Somme, France. <br />
Remembering those who perished in the Great War. <br />
There are 2,126 British, 120 Canadian, 147 Australian, 27 New Zealand, 6 South African and 1 Newfoundland casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,728 of the graves are unidentified. Every year local residents light the cemetery with lanterns in a mark of respect to the dead.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 16th Feb, 2006. Devastated Plaquemines Parish, just south of New Orleans, Louisiana. Coffins, sealed in hard plastic storage bins await re-burial at the Turner cemetery. Council man and local contractor Mike Mudge checks tags in the cemetery, surrounded by just a few of the hundreds of coffins he has recovered from all over the parish. The cemeteries in the parish were devastated by hurricane Katrina. Many of the coffins floated away and have now been recovered from the marshes and surrounding areas. Most of the remains have been identified and await burial for the second time. For now though, they wait above ground in cemeteries awaiting tombs tied to the land.
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  • March, 27th, 2006. The road to the end of St Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans. Seven months after the storm, cement coffins, filled with the original wooden coffins that were washed away by Hurricane Katrina and were collected from all over the area, await re-interring at Merrick cemetery, one of the oldest slave cemeteries in the south.
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  • 26 September 2012. Braithwaite, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana,  USA. .Coffins and human remains are collected by the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) at Promise Land Cemetery off highway 39. Tombs were washed from the cemetery during Hurricane Isaac..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 25 August 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Lake Lawn Cemetery. Hurricane Katrina Memorial. Remembering 1,464 Louisianians. 1,464 white flags drape the entrance lawn to the cemetery. A small potted rose marks the memorial flag for Pauline Singelmann, a poignant reminder for all the lives lost to hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 9th December, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. 3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva and family at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled aroud their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.
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  • 3rd November, 2005. A tomb still bearing a coffin at the Terre Aux Boaeufs (cattle land) cemetery in Saint Bernard parish just south of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina caused a 20ft tidal surge to sweep over the land, 'popping' tombs and displacing coffins.
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 June 2010. Pointe aux Chenes, Louisiana.<br />
Fading away. A simple marker placed in the marsh is all the denotes the old indian cemetery that has sunk into the wetlands just south of the isolated town of Pointe Aux Chenes. The town clings to the little land that remains along the bayous and waterways of southern Louisiana. Oil washes up on the  marsh grasses just south of tribal homes. If the grass dies, there is nothing left to hold the land. All of this was solid ground just 100 years ago. Diversion of the mighty Mississippi River diverted sediment from the wetlands and deposited precious land building material deep out at sea.  At present, all these fishing grounds are closed. Members of the Pointe aux Chenes Indians, settlers that can trace their roots beyond 5 generations back to France face extinction of their very way of life, their very existence. French cajun is the language of the elders, but is dying out in the children of today. BP's catastrophic oil spill threatens everything, their way of life and the land on which they live. Not recognised by the federal government, the 680 member tribe struggles for funds in a small community that survives only because of fishing and oil extraction in the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 24 October 2012. Braithwaite, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana,  USA. .Grizzly reminders of Hurricane Isaac unearthed by floodwaters almost two months previously await collection. Tombs from English Turn Cemetery were picked up and  smashed by hurricane Isaac. Many tombs were washed up on the levee, others scattered across the road. DMORT officials work to recover remains and reinter them in new caskets..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 20 August 2012. Metairie, Louisiana,  USA. .Funeral for St. John the Baptist Sheriff's deputy Brandon Nielsen at Lakelawn Metairie Cemetery. Nielsen was one of two St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies ambushed August 16, 2012 in LaPlace. 4 police officers were shot, 2 killed. Deputy Nielsen was gunned down in a hail of AK-47 assault rifle fire along with Deputy Jeremy Triche as they investigated members of the anti government group 'Sovereign Citizens,' a group listed by the government as 'Domestic Terrorists.'.7 suspects are being held in custody. Deputy Nielsen  leaves behind a wife and 5 children..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 28 August 2014.  Merrick Cemetery, <br />
St Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. <br />
Hurricane Katrina 9 years later. <br />
A few miles south of the Orleans parish line, crumbling concrete tombs reveal their contents. Recovered remains were placed in new coffins FEMA paid to be reburied following their uprooting by Hurricane Katrina. Today the temporary tombs appear to have become the permanent resting place for many of the dead displaced by Hurricane Katrina. <br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 23 August 2013. Braithwaite, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Isaac 1 year later. Braithwaite Cemetery. <br />
DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams) tombs provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) continue to await re-entombing.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 15 September 2012. Braithwaite, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana,  USA. .Tombs from English Turn Cemetery were picked up and  smashed by hurricane Isaac. Many tombs were washed up on the levee, others scattered across the road. FEMA contractors came in and marked caskets in order that they may one day be reinterred, covering them with ubiquitous blue tarp for now..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 19 Jan, 2006. Eminem's maternal grandmother Betty Kresin sits beside the graves of her sons Todd and Ronnie at the small St Joseph cemetery, Kansas. A small rural town where rap star Marshall Bruce Masthers III, aka Eminem's uncles lie buried. Eminem has never been to visit his uncle's graves.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  Post Katrina. <br />
An empty tomb at the Terre Aux Boaeufs (cattle land) cemetery in Saint Bernard parish just south of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina caused a 20ft tidal surge to sweep over the land, 'popping' tombs and displacing coffins.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 09December 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina Aftermath. <br />
3 1/2 months after the storm, New Orleans continues to bury the victims. 77 year old widow Geneva is embraced by her grandson at the funeral of her husband Vincent Giuffre at Greenwood cemetery. 87 year old Guiffre died in the arms of his 77 yr old wife Geneva in New Orleans East as the flood waters swirled around their kitchen. Geneva placed her cat Patsy in her attic, fully expecting her beloved pet to die. She swam out of her back door, leaving her husband's body floating in the kitchen. She held onto the drain surrounding her house roof and made her way to the front of the building where she clung on to the drainpipe for 3 days. Geneva was rescued by helicopter, taken to Houston. Her frantic family did not learn that she was safe for 4 days. The only thing she was able to save from her house was her wedding ring. Geneva and Vincent had been married 56 years. Miraculously a neighbour saved her cat, discovering it alive 3 weeks after the storm hit. Geneva and her cat now live with her son Gary in Atlanta.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  Post Katrina. <br />
An empty tomb at the Terre Aux Boaeufs (cattle land) cemetery in Saint Bernard parish just south of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina caused a 20ft tidal surge to sweep over the land, 'popping' tombs and displacing coffins.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  Post Katrina. <br />
An empty tomb at the Terre Aux Boaeufs (cattle land) cemetery in Saint Bernard parish just south of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina caused a 20ft tidal surge to sweep over the land, 'popping' tombs and displacing coffins.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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