Commonwealth War Grave Municipal Cemetery Cervera

On the Municipal Cemetery in Cervera is a niche with the body of private John Hill. The grave of John is very special because his brother Charles Hill is also buried in Spain, namely in the cemetery at Barcelona. He died only two weeks later. About the brothers several different stories are told. The most plausible story is that the brothers have fled from the at that time by the Germans occupied France and headed south to escape the advancing Germans. During their stay in Spain they were imprisoned in a former military hospital of the Spanish Civil War. The cause of death of two brothers is not known, it is known that Charles was deceased at the hospital in Barcelona and that explained why he was buried at the cemetery in Barcelona.

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• Text: TracesOfWar.nl
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