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Some people collect autographs as a hobby. There are also those who hunt down the famous and take selfies with them. Other folk, however, might prefer the more peaceful pursuit of celebrity gravespotting. The focus is not on the great monuments and shrines to kings and saints in cathedrals and abbeys, but on the unexpected finds in ordinary churchyards and municipal cemeteries.
Recently an historian friend in Lerwick, Shetland, was taking us on a tour of the war graves in the town cemetery. He told