Inspired by our blogging friend GP Cox, who dedicates his blog to honour those who fought in the Pacific during WWII, my husband Henry and I took a round trip to four churches to find the graves of some of the persons mentioned on the memorial statue in Herning. Nobody seems to know anything about them even though they have fallen because of WWII. Henry has promised to thoroughly research each of them and create a blog post.

Hoping to find the graves, we took some flowers from our garden to put at each grave. This first one in Assing was not so hard to find. He has a foreign name, and as he is a so-called Brigade Soldier, he must have escaped to Sweden, where our Danish Brigade was formed and trained to be ready to help get the German occupiers out of the country. 

The round symbol in copper is a sign that this grave is protected. Unfortunately, there was a grave in Herning for a Danish soldier in an Allied mission who lost his life on D-Day in Normandy whose gravestone got demolished before the rule of protection the WWII graves came along. The Americans even brought his body up to his parents in Herning. Shame on the ignorant people who demolished his gravestone.

Wagner W Paulsen was a Danish Canadian who lived in the area of this Aulum Church. I am looking forward to hear more about him.

In Bording, we nearly gave up our search for Egon Foldager’s Memorial plate. He was lost on the sea during WWII due to his ship being torpedoed by the Germans. We found it behind a wall, together with other abandoned gravestones.

Here at Sund’s Churchyard, we found the most impressive memorial stone for Hakon Petersen Bonding

Tragically, Hakan Petersen Bonding died one day before the Danish Liberation evening, 4 May.