News
01/01/2002
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERYMORE
No-one who has visited a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery will ever forget it.
The headstones are 813mm high engraved with either the national emblem or a service/regimental badge. In countries where there is a risk of earth movement, stone or bronze plaques on low pedestals are used instead. Climate permitting, the headstones stand in narrow borders with floribunda roses and small perennials, in a setting of lawns, trees and shrubs. Large areas of lawns make an attractive backdrop but turf can suffer considerable damage from the wear and tear imposed by the large numbers of visitors and of course from the climate.
The CWGC choose to use SISIS Auto-Rotorakes to combat thatch and have many machines in use in France, Greece, Syria, Egypt and Italy, as well as the UK. The new SISIS Rotorake 600 is being used in Egypt and is proving to have the robustness and power to cope with tough, hot-climate swards of Cynodon and Stenotaphrum. These grass species are very dense and rapidly build up a considerable thatch layer.
SISIS Rotorakes have proved to be reliable, robust and easy to handle in confined spaces.
Another SISIS machine used to keep these very special sites in good condition is the SISIS Ecospray.
CWGC had read about the benefits of "no drift" and no dribbles of chemical run-off. With customary thoroughness, they visited the SISIS factory and saw for themselves that the shrouds worked just as claimed. They realised that a pedestrian Ecospray would eliminate risk from drift to the roses, alpines and herbaceous plants situated between the headstones. Some reduction of the quantity of pesticide used is also anticipated. Much development work was undertaken with the CWGC contributing greatly to the eventual design. Most of these single unit Ecosprays are used in France and Belgium.
SISIS is genuinely proud of its long association with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
(The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the Commonwealth who died in the two world wars, to build and maintain memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown and to keep records and registers.
The remains of lost servicemen are still regularly discovered and buried with full honours. Every effort is made to establish identity, but is sadly not always possible.
The commission is responsible for 1,693,786 (year 2000 figure) commemorations in 148 countries).
The headstones are 813mm high engraved with either the national emblem or a service/regimental badge. In countries where there is a risk of earth movement, stone or bronze plaques on low pedestals are used instead. Climate permitting, the headstones stand in narrow borders with floribunda roses and small perennials, in a setting of lawns, trees and shrubs. Large areas of lawns make an attractive backdrop but turf can suffer considerable damage from the wear and tear imposed by the large numbers of visitors and of course from the climate.
The CWGC choose to use SISIS Auto-Rotorakes to combat thatch and have many machines in use in France, Greece, Syria, Egypt and Italy, as well as the UK. The new SISIS Rotorake 600 is being used in Egypt and is proving to have the robustness and power to cope with tough, hot-climate swards of Cynodon and Stenotaphrum. These grass species are very dense and rapidly build up a considerable thatch layer.
SISIS Rotorakes have proved to be reliable, robust and easy to handle in confined spaces.
Another SISIS machine used to keep these very special sites in good condition is the SISIS Ecospray.
CWGC had read about the benefits of "no drift" and no dribbles of chemical run-off. With customary thoroughness, they visited the SISIS factory and saw for themselves that the shrouds worked just as claimed. They realised that a pedestrian Ecospray would eliminate risk from drift to the roses, alpines and herbaceous plants situated between the headstones. Some reduction of the quantity of pesticide used is also anticipated. Much development work was undertaken with the CWGC contributing greatly to the eventual design. Most of these single unit Ecosprays are used in France and Belgium.
SISIS is genuinely proud of its long association with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
(The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the Commonwealth who died in the two world wars, to build and maintain memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown and to keep records and registers.
The remains of lost servicemen are still regularly discovered and buried with full honours. Every effort is made to establish identity, but is sadly not always possible.
The commission is responsible for 1,693,786 (year 2000 figure) commemorations in 148 countries).
