British War Graves, Ocracoke

In 1942 a German U Boat sank HMS Bedfordshire which was on loan from Winston Churchill to America to patrol the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Thirty six British sailors were on board and only four bodies were ever washed up at Ocracoke. The local coastguard buried them here and look after the graves which now have Commonwealth grave stones marking them. The original stone crosses erected by Ocracoke residents have been erected to one side of the graves recently, having been in the Preservation Museum for some years. For ten minutes or so we were stood on British soil again.