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  • NickNickiquote@mstdn.social
    Nov 5, 2026, 5:38 PM

    Nazi graves (boo hiss). The two sisters who were “Hitler’s girlfriend” maybe, and definitely Oswald Mosley’s wife.

    Gravestone of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, simple with a square cross.
    Grave of Diana Mosley.
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  • NickNickiquote@mstdn.social
    Nov 5, 2026, 5:48 PM

    Their brother, Tom Mitford, was also a Nazi sympathiser and member of the British Union of Fascists.

    During the war he asked to be stationed to the Pacific so as not to fight against Germany. He died in Burma in 1945. He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery in Myanmar.

    Tom is commemorated in the church in Swinbrook with a plaque below his parents’ (in the bell tower, note the bell ropes) and also on the Roll of Honour.

    THE MEN AND WOMEN OF SWINBROOK WHO SERVED WITH THE REGULAR FORCES IN THE WAR OF 1939 IO 1945: ROYAL, NAVY •Lt.. DAVID BOYD, RN.V. R: ", Lt. JASPER GODDEN, R.N. Lt. MICHAEL, GODDEN, RAN. Yeo, Sig. EDWARD NEMP, RIN. Lt. WALTER: PHILLIMORE, R.N.,,T 21" June, 1942. Lt. CHARLES STANDRING SMITH, RIN.V. R. Ld, Wrn. MARY BOYD, W.R. N. S. ARMY Maj. CHRISTOPHER BOYD, Oxi & Bücks, Lt. Int. Maj. MARTIN BOYD, R. T. O Pte. DENIS BROWN, Oxf & Bucks. Lt. Inf. It. Gol. A. G. BULGER, 27" LANCERS. Bombr. GEORGE EVERETT, R.A. Pte. JAMES EVERETT, Somerset, Lt. Int. Ma). JOHN GWYER, R.O.S. Orits. JAMES HOULTON; R. E. M. E. Maj. HON THOMAS FREEMAN MITFORD, K.R.R. OT 30" Maron, 1945. i. Capt. DUNCAN MACKINNON, Argyll & Sutherland Highs. Ool. HENRY PHILLIMORE, R.A., O. B.E. Corp. HAROLD PATE, R. C.S. Pte. WILLIAM PRATLEY, Oxf & Bucks, Lt. Inf Sgt. FRANCIS SMITH, R.E.M.E. Pte.. HERBERT TIMMS. Oxf & Bucks. Lt. IN. Pte.. CECIL TOWNSEND. • Capt. RICHARD WELLS, R.A. Corp. ELLEN COOMBES, A.T. S. L.Opl. PEGGY SMITH, ROYAL AIR FORGE Ac. • RONALD APPLIN, Sqd.L. DAVID ASHWORTH, Corp. WILLIAM PORTER, FI. Lt. DESMOND TRENCH. 26™ February, 1941. F.Sgt._ ELIZABETH SMITH, W.A.A.P. Corp. VANDA SMITH, WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THOSE WHO RETURNED, AND HONOUR THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DID NOT.
    Plaques with bell ropes hanging in front of them.IN VERY LOVING MEMORY OF DAVID BERTRAM OGILVY FREEMAN-MITFORD SECOND BARON REDESDALE J.P. BORN 1878 - DIED 1958 AND OF HIS WIFE SYDNEY BOWLES DAUGHTER OF THOMAS GIBSON BOWLES M.P. BORN 1880 - DIED 1963 fr Lasting and Deuind Niemone very Parjeet Son and Berher MELIOR THE HONOLPABI THOMAS DAVID FREEMAN MITFORD THE QUEENS WISTMINSTIRS WHO-DIEL IN, BURMA ON GOOD FRIDAY 30TH MARCH 10+5 OF WOUND RECEIVED IN ACTION ON THE PREVIOUS SATURDAY WHILE ATTAC D. AS ZAI -IN COMMAND TO THE DEVONSHIRE RECHMENT AGED 30 THE ONLY SON OF LORD AND LADY REDESDALE God Careth Por Us" COD CARCTH FOR AS THE OAK PEWS IN THIS CHURCH ARE PLACED HERE IN MEMORY OF LORD REDESDALE G.C.V.O.. K.C.B. WHO DIED AT BATSFORD PARK IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE ON 17IE AUGUST 19/6 AND OF MAJOR THE HONOURABLE CLEMENT FREEMAN MITFORD D.S.O., XIE ROYAL HUSSARS WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FLANDERS _ON IDEA MAY 1915 gua NOCANT
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  • NickNickiquote@mstdn.social
    Nov 5, 2026, 5:53 PM

    Last time I was in the churchyard, Oswald and Diana’s son Max, famous for F1 and reported Nazi themed orgies, did not yet have a gravestone. He does now, in the same row as his mother and two of his aunts.

    (Mosley strongly denied his admitted BDSM session with five female sex workers had any Nazi associations whatsoever, and went to court over it, becoming a noted privacy campaigner).

    Simple gravestone: MAX MOSLEY 1940 - 2021 JEAN MOSLEY nee Taylor 1940 - 2021
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  • NickNickiquote@mstdn.social
    Nov 5, 2026, 6:47 PM

    Nancy Mitford is a much more respectable sister, being both a brilliantly funny author and also quite bitterly opposed to fascism (although probably not as much as the communist Decca).

    Nancy worked with her husband in a Spanish Civil War refugee camp in France which helped harden her anti-fascism.

    She is sometimes criticised for denouncing her Nazi sisters to MI5 during the war, but only by buffoons.

    Despite this, her gravestone features a cunt (explanation below).

    Gravestone featuring the image of a mole. NANCY MITFORD, Authoress, Wife of Peter Rodd, 1904-1973
    Close up of the mole on the gravestone.
    On it are written, in plain script barely legible beneath the decay, the words: NANCY MITFORD, Authoress, Wife of Peter Rodd, 1904-1973. Above the words is carved a strange fat animal, which is in fact a mole taken from the Mitford family crest. Nancy disliked the sign of the cross because she thought it a symbol of cruelty. So her sister Pamela, also buried in Swinbrook churchyard, chose for her the mole, a neat eccentric image that in later life was embossed on Nancy's writing paper. An aunt of hers wrote to say how much she loved the letterhead: "your charming little golden cunt (Glostershire of my young days for moles, few people now know what it means)." "She's not in the Tynan set," Nancy had remarked. Beneath the earth, then, she may be laughing: her favorite thing in the world.
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  • NickNickiquote@mstdn.social
    Nov 5, 2026, 6:57 PM

    A few exterior shots of the church itself, originally built around 1200 with the narrow little belltower added in the 19th century.

    Grey stone church in a churchyard full of graves. It has a narrow belltower with a St George’s Cross flying from it. There is a large ornate window at the other end.
    Grey stone church in a churchyard full of graves. It has a narrow belltower with a St George’s Cross flying from it. Pictured from the belltower end.
    Grey stone church in a churchyard full of graves. It has a narrow belltower with a St George’s Cross flying from it. The entrance is prominent in this photo.
    Picture of the full length of the church, with tombs in the foreground.
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