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There are a few maps online of where ancient Britons lived.   

Around the country are stone circles and I am looking forward to future postings where chatters have discovered their DNA roots, then visited the areas of their primitive ancestors.

With the experiences of some chatters in mind who found headstones in cemeteries when they had no maps  Will their memory banks contain any passed down ancient memories of tribal ceremonies performed near the ancient stones?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/iron_01.shtml

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/warwickclassicsnetwork/romancoventry/resources/prehistoricbritain/ironage/tribes/

The Canadian government took a lot of UK military documentation when they heard that the UK National Archives intended to destroy records due to their needing more space.

There were previous ships with that name but no mention in the Casnadian archives.

Howver, I see a member of the east coast Flamborough/Bridlington Facebook page has a mention of the ship.

"It is not known how much damage Heliopolis sustained but it was enough for her to put back into port for repairs. Some time after the attack my Dad went below to find a white hot bomb fragment had come clean through the side of the ship and his bunk. Had he been there a few hours earlier this story would have ended here. The 20 year old Bridlington fisherman's son had only been at sea for two weeks."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlamboroughandBridlingtonthenandnow/posts/3489922184483453/

You learn something new every day.  My late OH served in the RAF for 12 years and I never heard mention of a Graves section.

I've now looked it up and found this:-

<The term "Graves" is not a specific section of the British armed forces, but refers to the graves and memorialization of service members, primarily those maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
During World War II, the responsibility for handling British Army and RAF graves was split, with the Army Graves Service handling Army graves and RAF personnel graves in Western Europe being initially handled by Army units due to an agreement between the Air Ministry and War Office, though the RAF later advocated for its own units to handle its own graves.

Army Graves Service: A branch of the British Army that was initially responsible for handling graves in Western Europe, including those of RAF personnel.
RAF Graves Service: A service that the RAF had to form to handle its own graves because of its initial lack of responsibility for its own dead. It was not an operational or combat role, but an administrative one.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC): The CWGC was the primary organization responsible for maintaining war graves for the Commonwealth forces after the two World Wars.

Service-funded funeral: After January 1948, all service personnel who die in military service and receive a service-funded funeral are entitled to have their grave marked with a military-pattern memorial, and the government will maintain it at public expense. >

best wishes from me too Viktoria.

Yesterday was very windy .  Offspring visited and when I went to the front door to see them off I was so surprised to see the path was ankle deep in green leaves from local trees, which showed how vicious the wind had been.

I used to have a steady weight but a switch seems to have been turned on and I'm grazing far too much on anything I see in the kitchen.  My forearms are still slim but my so called "bat wings" are definitely too heavy to lift a bat   

Rena:  I agree and understand all you say about burials, carrying a wounded man etc. and was pretty much as I had worked out for myself but just felt the need to ask a question and satisfy myself there was no more to be done.  I strongly suspect the surviving brother was distressed by his brother dying right beside him and may have felt guilty for surviving.  I know they were more than brothers and 'mates' as well.
Audrey

I thought you probably did but I took the view that I would confirm that you were not alone in your beliefs.