In June 2022, Aldershot Military Cemetery Chapel (not far from where I live) hosted a service of remembrance for Falklands veterans from the Parachute Regiment. That service is held every five years.
Just over a hundred and fifty years earlier, the then Bishop of Winchester, Samuel Wilberforce (third son of William Wilberforce) had consecrated the Protestant portion of the cemetery.
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