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08/11/2012
QR Smart Phone Code Installed At War Cemetery
Mobile phone technology has been installed at the war graves site at Botley Cemetery to provide information about the men and women buried there.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has installed a panel at the site with a QR (quick response) code which can be scanned using smart phones and tablets.
Information about 671 people buried their will be available including the story of Ralph Wingrove, an RAF wireless operator, who documented his time in the Middle East with photos dated from 1938 to 1945. He died in 1945 when his Lancaster bomber on a training flight crashed near Leicester.
CWGC will roll out the project at 500 sites across Europe in time for centenary events marking the start of World War I. It will link users to text, extracts from diaries and letters, photographs and audio, all telling the human stories of the deceased.
Around 700 people will mark Remembrance Sunday at Botley Cemetery.
(GK/IT)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has installed a panel at the site with a QR (quick response) code which can be scanned using smart phones and tablets.
Information about 671 people buried their will be available including the story of Ralph Wingrove, an RAF wireless operator, who documented his time in the Middle East with photos dated from 1938 to 1945. He died in 1945 when his Lancaster bomber on a training flight crashed near Leicester.
CWGC will roll out the project at 500 sites across Europe in time for centenary events marking the start of World War I. It will link users to text, extracts from diaries and letters, photographs and audio, all telling the human stories of the deceased.
Around 700 people will mark Remembrance Sunday at Botley Cemetery.
(GK/IT)
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