Graves - Beersheba (Be'er Sheva) War Cemetery

This is just a quick sketch I did while waiting to be loaded onto the tour bus. It does not portray the vastness of the cemetery nor the mesmerising symmetry of the headstones. For the record the grave closest is that of A M Whitmore 320394 Royal Sussex Regiment 6 November 1917 Age 29 - Deeply Missed By His Sorrowing Wife May He Rest In Peace. I've no connection to him, other than where I just happened to sit yesterday when we visited Beersheba (now named Be'er Sheva) yesterday ahead of the centenary commemorations on Tuesday. The streets into Beersheba are already lined with Australian, New Zealand and Israeli flags and commemorative banners. Whilst the charge at Beersheba is strongly associated with Australia and New Zealand, the cemetery of over a thousand graves is predominately filled with British war dead.