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Since the start of the First World War in August 1914 the British Army had buried their fatalities in civilian cemeteries close to the battlefields of the Western Front. By 1915 it was realised that this was not sustainable as the existing cemeteries were being overwhelmed by the number of burials.[2] Fabian Ware, who served on the front with the British Red Cross took an interest in the matter and from spring 1915 spoke with French government representatives to discuss a long-term solution for military burials. Ware, fluent in French, advocated for the provision of permanent cemeteries in France for British military burials.[3] Ware's case was taken up by the Adjutant-General of the British Expeditionary Force, Sir Nevil Macready, who formally asked for the right to purchase land for this purpose.[2] Law French war graves near Chemin des Dames, Aisne There was some political opposition in France to permitting foreign governments to purchase large swathes of land. The French government instead decided to acquire the land themselves and make it available to foreign governments.[2] The law created a simplified eminent domain procedure for the acquisition of land for cemeteries.[4] This was to be implemented by prefects when land could not be granted from local municipalities or purchased by negotiation.[4] An area of 3 square metres (32 sq ft) per grave was permitted.[4] An early draft of the law permitted acquisition by eminent domain only when existing civilian cemeteries were insufficient, but the final version permitted it in any circumstance.[5] Additionally the law designated the temporary war cemeteries which had since been established by the British Army as "the free gift of the French people for a perpetual resting place of those who are laid there".[6] In addition to providing for foreign soldiers the law also changed the way French fatalities were treated. The law stated that "any soldier who has died for France has the right to a grave in perpetuity at the expense of the State".[7] It granted for the first time the right for French soldiers to have, where possible, an individual and marked grave; mass graves had previously been permitted.[8] The law also halted the practice of exhuming French bodies from the front and taking them to other parts of the country for burial; they would now be buried close to where they had died.[9] The law was passed in both chambers of the French Parliament on 29 December 1915.[2] Impact The law became a model for laws in other countries in which the Allies operated. Similar arrangements were made for the burial of Allied casualties in Belgium, Italy, Greece, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Germany and Turkey.[10] The French war ministry used the law to replace existing mass graves with individual burials and to concentrate scattered burials in designated military cemeteries. This work began as soon as the law was passed but was interrupted by the German spring offensive in 1918. After the war's end the newly formed Office des Sépultures Militaires used the law to complete the work.[5] In 1917 the British Empire's Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), under Ware, became an association régulièrement constituée as defined by the law of 29 December 1915 and acted as the representative of the armed forces of the British Empire for war graves purposes. The IWGC took over this role from the Edward, Prince of Wales' National Committee for the Care of Soldiers' Graves, established in January 1916.[11] The IWGC, which is now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, continues to maintain British Empire cemeteries of the First and Second World Wars in France and elsewhere.[12] |
| | The 1963–64 season was Gillingham's 32nd season playing in the Football League and the 14th since the club was elected back into the League in 1950 after being voted out in 1938.[1] It was the club's sixth consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division,[1] which had been created in 1958 when the parallel Third Division South and Third Division North were merged and reorganised into two national divisions at the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system.[2] Freddie Cox was the team's manager, a position he had held since June 1962;[3] in his first season in charge, Gillingham had finished 5th in the Fourth Division, a huge improvement over their 20th-place finish in the 1961–62 season.[4] Prior to the new season, the club signed Geoff Hudson, a 31-year-old full-back with well over a decade of Football League experience, from Crewe Alexandra.[5] Cox also signed three young players from Portsmouth, all of whom he knew from his time managing that club until 1961: Rod Taylor, a half-back aged 19, 21-year-old full-back Jimmy White, and Brian Yeo, a forward also aged 19.[6] Jimmy Boswell assisted Cox in the role of team trainer.[7] The team wore Gillingham's traditional blue shirts and white shorts, the only change in design from the previous season being the style of collar and the placement of the club badge on the shirt.[8] Redevelopment work took place at the club's home ground, Priestfield Stadium, between seasons as floodlights were installed for the first time, at a cost of £14,000 (equivalent to £310,000 in 2021).[9] The club had been one of the few in the Football League yet to install lights, which had become prevalent in English professional football since the mid-1950s, and when they were switched on for a game for the first time (September 1963) it made Gillingham the 89th out of 92 Football League clubs to play a home match under lights.[10] Gillingham's first two matches of the season were both at home to teams from the city of Bradford. The first took place on 24 August against Bradford (Park Avenue); Gordon Pulley scored Gillingham's first goal of the season and Brian Gibbs added a second to give the team a 2–0 victory.[11] Four days later, the team drew 0–0 with Bradford City; Gillingham were the only team in the Football League to concede no goals in their first two games of the season.[12] The game against Bradford City was the first of three consecutive draws for Gillingham in Fourth Division games as they were also held by Southport and Exeter City.[11] Following a win away to Bradford City and a draw away to Hartlepools United, Gillingham beat Lincoln City 1–0 on 18 September to go top of the league table on goal average.[11][13] Hudson scored the winner, the only goal he scored in more than 300 Football League matches.[14][15] At this point Gillingham had conceded only one goal in seven Fourth Division games.[13][16] The team concluded September with a victory over Darlington and a draw against Tranmere Rovers.[11] Gillingham began October with four consecutive victories, defeating Lincoln, Halifax Town, Carlisle United, and Doncaster Rovers. George Francis scored five goals in three games at the start of the month.[11] After 13 consecutive Fourth Division games without defeat, Gillingham lost for the first time on 15 October when they were beaten 3–1 by Carlisle; they were the final team in the Football League's four divisions to lose a game during the 1963–64 season.[17][18] The team won their next two matches without conceding a goal, but then lost two consecutive games without scoring one.[11] Despite the two defeats, Gillingham remained top of the Fourth Division at the end of October, one point ahead of Carlisle.[19] Gibbs was the team's top league goalscorer at this point in the season, his four goals in the month taking his total to eight.[11] Gillingham won three out of four matches in November and remained top of the division.[11][20] Gibbs scored five goals in three games, including two in a 3–1 win at home to Workington, the first time the team had scored more than twice in a game at Priestfield during the season so far.[11] On 21 December the team topped this performance by winning 5–1 at home to Southport, their biggest win of the entire season. Ron Newman scored three times, the team's only hat-trick of the season.[11][21] Gillingham's final two matches of 1963 were both against Chesterfield. On 26 December Pulley scored twice as Gillingham won 3–0 at their opponents' Saltergate stadium, and two days later Gillingham won 1–0 at Priestfield with Gibbs scoring the only goal, his 14th Fourth Division goal of the season.[11] Gillingham finished the year top of the Fourth Division, one point ahead of second-placed Carlisle. They had conceded only 15 goals, the best defensive record in the division; only four other teams in the Fourth Division had conceded fewer than 30.[22] The Goldstone Ground, Brighton Gillingham's first defeat of 1964 came at the Goldstone Ground, home of Brighton & Hove Albion. (photo 1976) |
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