Image: Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney - geograph.org.uk - 121041
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Description: Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney. This Cemetery was begun in 1915 when Lyness was a Naval Base and home of the Grand Fleet. There are 439 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 200 from the Second World War. The cemetery also contains the graves of 14 German sailors lost when the German High Seas Fleet was scuttled in Scapa Flow in June 1919.
Title: Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Hoy, Orkney - geograph.org.uk - 121041
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