The MIDDLETON boys and so much more...
My time away in Christchurch over the Christmas break was fantastic also in that I managed to snap over 2000 photographs, most of these at Bromley Cemetery. I have this penchant to photograph as many graves as I could that mentioned deceased military members of family's on headstones but that had no official military plaque or similar. Along with these, I try to photograph headstones [like my work as a volunteer researcher for the Friends of Linwood Cemetery Trust doesn't keep me busy!], I feel will offer an interesting story if I dig further and so go by ages of the interred [very early birth years in comparison to New Zealand's European history]; multiple deaths that are close in date; 'accidental deaths'; other various military graves and unusual names. Many other of my grave photographs with bios can be found HERE This cemetery like all others in Christchurch and outlying areas has been badly damaged due the the thousands of earthquakes in the past 2...