Graves and Memorials: Churkin Naval Cemetery
A portion of the Churkin Naval Cemetery (known in Russian as the "Morskoe" or Maritime Cemetery on the Churkin Peninsula in Vladivostok) is used in separate sections for soldiers of various nationalities, including Canadian, British, American, French, Czech and Japanese and a few other nationalities (including, for example, the Australian Honorary Consul). Fourteen Canadian soldiers and fourteen British soldiers are buried there. The same section contains a memorial to the ten British and three Canadian soldiers whose graves are found in other parts of Siberia. During the Soviet period, this site was largely unmaintained; in 1996, a Canadian warship visited Vladivostok, and the crew restored the graves and memorial, replacing a number of the headstones.
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Famous quotes containing the words graves, naval and/or cemetery:
“Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only, we die in earnest—that’s no jest.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)