Old Dyce Commonwealth War Cemetery

This afternoon after dropping off a friend, bound for New Zealand, at Aberdeen International Airport we visited the tranquil and ancient Church of St Fergus which overlooks the River Don, a couple of miles from the airport. 
Today the airport is busy with fixed wing aircraft taking holiday makers and business people to domestic and European destinations and with helicopters servicing oil rigs far out in the North Sea. However, it started out life as a war-time Royal Air Force station for fighters covering the North Sea. It also specialised in training pilots, particularly in the art of photo-reconnaissance. Consequently there was a regular turn-over in the units based at the station. 
The old churchyard was chosen by the authorities for the burial of casualties from the air station. There is a single  Commonwealth burial of the 1914-18 war in the churchyard together with a further 45 of the 1939-45 war including an unidentified airman of the R.A.F. The Commonwealth dead include men and women from the UK, Canada, Rhodesia, New Zealand and Australia. They lie alongside Polish and Czech pilots and 11 Luftwaffe air crew.
The photograph was not as I intended, on returning home I discovered that I had had pressed some button or other that produced a rather interesting result!