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adb41
Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 1546
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 10:49 am Post subject: QR codes on Canadian wargraves |
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From the BBC News website: QR-codes (which can be scanned using mobile phone technology) have been added to CWGC gravestones at a cemetery in Denbighshire |
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DelBoy
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Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 1188 Location: Arbroath
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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I saw something about these on the CWGC facebook page. They were appealing for biographies of casualties from certain cemeteries for just such technology to be used.
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kinnethmont
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Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 121 Location: aberdeenshire
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 5:38 pm Post subject: CWGC - New signs with QR Codes |
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They are being added here to, some are now in place.
Below images of two in Glasgow. From the QR code a micro website has details of the cemetery and specific casualties.
St Kentigerns
Western Necropolis
Some others being unveiled by CWGC:
Queensferry Friday 23 May 11hr
Edinburgh Rosebank Saturday 24 May 11hr
Lyness Orkney Saturday 30 May 12hr
Islay early October TBC
Perth Wellshill 2 November afternoon. _________________ Jim
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
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