Sarah Nathaniel
@sarahnathaniel.bsky.social
Public Engagement Coordinator (South East) and Education Officer, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Always learning | All views my own.
Educational Workshop Leader & Teacher
Always learning | All views my own.
Educational Workshop Leader & Teacher
Ahead of Armed Forces Day at Chatham Dockyard on the 28th June, I'll be giving a talk at the Royal Engineers Museum on Friday 27th June at 2pm about our archives and how to use our records.
More information on the RE Museum website
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More information on the RE Museum website
www.re-museum.co.uk/re-museum-ev...
June 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Ahead of Armed Forces Day at Chatham Dockyard on the 28th June, I'll be giving a talk at the Royal Engineers Museum on Friday 27th June at 2pm about our archives and how to use our records.
More information on the RE Museum website
www.re-museum.co.uk/re-museum-ev...
More information on the RE Museum website
www.re-museum.co.uk/re-museum-ev...
In Volunteer's Week, I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers. We could not do what we do to remember the fallen @cwgc.bsky.social without your unwavering support & dedication. 2 volunteering events this week: Shorncliffe Cemetery & Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery.
June 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In Volunteer's Week, I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers. We could not do what we do to remember the fallen @cwgc.bsky.social without your unwavering support & dedication. 2 volunteering events this week: Shorncliffe Cemetery & Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery.
Anyone local to Worthing, please pop along and see the fabulous work these young people have produced remembering @cwgc.bsky.social Second World War casualties from the town. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...
Exhibition showcases children’s responses to their research into Worthing’s fallen, including artwork and poetry
An exhibition of work produced by children from three Worthing schools following research into the fallen from the Second World War has gone on show at Worthing Library.
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June 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anyone local to Worthing, please pop along and see the fabulous work these young people have produced remembering @cwgc.bsky.social Second World War casualties from the town. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...
All are welcome to join us at our @cwgc.bsky.social volunteering day at Gillingham Cemetery on the 4th June as part of Volunteers Week.
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CWGC Volunteering Day at Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is looking for volunteers to support our operations teams at Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery.
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May 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
All are welcome to join us at our @cwgc.bsky.social volunteering day at Gillingham Cemetery on the 4th June as part of Volunteers Week.
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Highlight at Tangmere VE Day event - emotional chat with a lovely woman whose grandfather we commemorate in Greece. She wanted to thank us for helping her find him. Visiting as she turned 80, she told me how important it was to talk to the grandfather she had never known. @cwgc.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Highlight at Tangmere VE Day event - emotional chat with a lovely woman whose grandfather we commemorate in Greece. She wanted to thank us for helping her find him. Visiting as she turned 80, she told me how important it was to talk to the grandfather she had never known. @cwgc.bsky.social
Snapshot of VE Day 80 in my corner of the world. @cwgc.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Snapshot of VE Day 80 in my corner of the world. @cwgc.bsky.social
Wonderful weekend in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 with 1000 Canadian students at @cwgc.bsky.social Bergen Op Zoom Canadian Cemetery & then carrying our Torch for Peace on a silent march back to the city. Exceptional, inspiring young people. 🇨🇦
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Wonderful weekend in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 with 1000 Canadian students at @cwgc.bsky.social Bergen Op Zoom Canadian Cemetery & then carrying our Torch for Peace on a silent march back to the city. Exceptional, inspiring young people. 🇨🇦
Honoured to meet with the great niece of Pte George Fears, the lone @cwgc.bsky.social burial at Alciston, who died on the 11th Nov 1918. It was wonderful to be able to share information and photographs of George and his family and for Teresa to meet Joan, the EOHO volunteer who cares for George.
April 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Honoured to meet with the great niece of Pte George Fears, the lone @cwgc.bsky.social burial at Alciston, who died on the 11th Nov 1918. It was wonderful to be able to share information and photographs of George and his family and for Teresa to meet Joan, the EOHO volunteer who cares for George.
In celebration of #internationalwomensday2025 I've created an education resource that explores stories of women we commemorate @cwgc.bsky.social set within the wider context of women's Second World War work. You can see this and all our other education resources here: www.cwgc.org/our-work/out...
March 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
In celebration of #internationalwomensday2025 I've created an education resource that explores stories of women we commemorate @cwgc.bsky.social set within the wider context of women's Second World War work. You can see this and all our other education resources here: www.cwgc.org/our-work/out...
Very wet and windy @cwgc.bsky.social headstone replacement at Petworth today. Nothing stops our Ops Team from getting the job done 💪💪💪
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very wet and windy @cwgc.bsky.social headstone replacement at Petworth today. Nothing stops our Ops Team from getting the job done 💪💪💪
A visit to Herne Bay Cemetery to talk to Sir Roger Gale MP about the work the @cwgc.bsky.social does to commemorate those from & remembered in his constituency. No visit to Herne Bay is complete without saying hello to Amy Johnson looking out to where her aircraft was lost in January 1941.
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A visit to Herne Bay Cemetery to talk to Sir Roger Gale MP about the work the @cwgc.bsky.social does to commemorate those from & remembered in his constituency. No visit to Herne Bay is complete without saying hello to Amy Johnson looking out to where her aircraft was lost in January 1941.
Cross curricular work at one of my favourite schools today. Researching local casualties using the @cwgc.bsky.social database and then plotting where they're commemorated on a world map. Great work from Y6 at West Park 😊
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cross curricular work at one of my favourite schools today. Researching local casualties using the @cwgc.bsky.social database and then plotting where they're commemorated on a world map. Great work from Y6 at West Park 😊
6) June. Means only one thing. Chalke Valley. @cwgc. This is me with the wonderful Kate Vigurs just after we'd given our joint talk about the women of SOE and where and how they are commemorated by @cwgc.bsky.social. One of my professional highlights of the year.
5) May was such a special month with all the @cwgc.bsky.social commemorations for DDay 80. The highlight and privilege for me was meeting some of the last veterans. This is me with Stan Ford at Plymouth.
December 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
6) June. Means only one thing. Chalke Valley. @cwgc. This is me with the wonderful Kate Vigurs just after we'd given our joint talk about the women of SOE and where and how they are commemorated by @cwgc.bsky.social. One of my professional highlights of the year.
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Wonderful Dutch tradition of lighting War Graves on Christmas Eve sees the 2617 graves at Groesbeek lit tonight,
December 24, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Wonderful Dutch tradition of lighting War Graves on Christmas Eve sees the 2617 graves at Groesbeek lit tonight,
5) May was such a special month with all the @cwgc.bsky.social commemorations for DDay 80. The highlight and privilege for me was meeting some of the last veterans. This is me with Stan Ford at Plymouth.
December 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM
5) May was such a special month with all the @cwgc.bsky.social commemorations for DDay 80. The highlight and privilege for me was meeting some of the last veterans. This is me with Stan Ford at Plymouth.
4) More New Zealand casualties from a tiny village on the tip of the South Island.
December 23, 2024 at 6:49 PM
4) More New Zealand casualties from a tiny village on the tip of the South Island.
As there’s only 12 days left of 2024, I’m going to finish the year by daily posting my favourite photo from each month, from my phone camera roll.
Feel free to do likewise!
3. March - Queenstown War Memorial, New Zealand.
#neverreallyonholiday
Feel free to do likewise!
3. March - Queenstown War Memorial, New Zealand.
#neverreallyonholiday
December 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM
As there’s only 12 days left of 2024, I’m going to finish the year by daily posting my favourite photo from each month, from my phone camera roll.
Feel free to do likewise!
3. March - Queenstown War Memorial, New Zealand.
#neverreallyonholiday
Feel free to do likewise!
3. March - Queenstown War Memorial, New Zealand.
#neverreallyonholiday
I love this idea! Two from me today too. Work @cwgc.bsky.social trip to Belgium which spanned Jan & Feb.
December 21, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I love this idea! Two from me today too. Work @cwgc.bsky.social trip to Belgium which spanned Jan & Feb.
First proper day off work for the hols, so decided to go & see an amazing collection of 22 original grave markers at St Mary's, Byfleet. Very well preserved & some still with the mud of Flanders on them. Does anyone know of a bigger collection? #neverreallyonholiday
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 PM
First proper day off work for the hols, so decided to go & see an amazing collection of 22 original grave markers at St Mary's, Byfleet. Very well preserved & some still with the mud of Flanders on them. Does anyone know of a bigger collection? #neverreallyonholiday
Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the deaths of this crew when their Lancaster crashed into Worthing beach, apparently trying to avoid the town. En route to Munich, after the incident only one body was recovered. The rest are commemorated @cwgc.bsky.social Runnymede Memorial.
December 18, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the deaths of this crew when their Lancaster crashed into Worthing beach, apparently trying to avoid the town. En route to Munich, after the incident only one body was recovered. The rest are commemorated @cwgc.bsky.social Runnymede Memorial.
Wishing my followers old and new, a very Merry Christmas. Hope you are able to relax and do what makes you happy. I'll be back in the New Year with more @cwgc.bsky.social adventures!
December 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Wishing my followers old and new, a very Merry Christmas. Hope you are able to relax and do what makes you happy. I'll be back in the New Year with more @cwgc.bsky.social adventures!
I have a new obsession.... Sets of 3 or more brothers killed in the FWW. I have four lots from my town alone. Anyone got any other examples? Particularly Sussex or Kent based.
December 6, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I have a new obsession.... Sets of 3 or more brothers killed in the FWW. I have four lots from my town alone. Anyone got any other examples? Particularly Sussex or Kent based.
You know you've done your job properly when the Y1 girl tells you the nurses' story was her favourite and that was who she wanted to remember. Not my usual audience but a lovely, engaged bunch of Year 1 children at Annecy School, Seaford starting to learn about @cwgc.bsky.social
And great colouring
And great colouring
November 27, 2024 at 4:24 PM
You know you've done your job properly when the Y1 girl tells you the nurses' story was her favourite and that was who she wanted to remember. Not my usual audience but a lovely, engaged bunch of Year 1 children at Annecy School, Seaford starting to learn about @cwgc.bsky.social
And great colouring
And great colouring