Gladsmuir Church and Cemetery

The remains of the church sit in what is now a well-manicured cemetery.

Aside from the occasional traffic cone placed in a doorway to alert visitors to the peril of walking through, it looks much as it has for the last 100 years. 

Interestingly, in this place filled with memorials to the passing of the local residents, there is a more recent, temporary indication of a local resident who is with us no more. It seems that Gladsmuir, whose name name means the moor of the hawk or kite, is still well populated with aerial hunters. 

When decorated with the clouds under a mostly sunny sky, there is a nobleness to the remains that perhaps even the original would fail to surpass.

Among the residents of this green and well-kept place are those who served their country. Below is the gravestone of Janet Stuart, a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS; often pronounced as an acronym) was the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World War. It was formed on 9 September 1938, initially as a women's voluntary service, and existed until 1 February 1949, when it was merged into the Women's Royal Army Corps.

Here is one of the many Victorian era markers from the cemetery.