Fiona Dunlop feels she is repaying a family debt by looking after war graves across the Scottish Borders.
"I became very familiar through teaching the children about the work of the CWGC with the CWGC's work abroad," she said."I feel I'm sort of paying back the CWGC because they look after the graves of two relations of mine," she explained.One was her great-uncle, Donald, who is buried at Langemark in Belgium having been killed in the early days of Passchendaele in 1917.
She now looks after more than a dozen cemeteries from Peebles to Hawick and finds cleaning and tidying the headstones "much more enjoyable than ordinary housework and gardening"."It is a lot of work, but fortunately I don't end up having to clean them all myself all the time," she said. "I can do the sort of easier jobs myself, in terms of sort of cleaning round the graves but for the really tough jobs they come into their own."CWGCMs Dunlop hopes to become a tour guide to tell the stories of the people buried in Peebles Cemetery
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