Newstead Abbey fell out badly. In 1808, Lord Grey left at the end of his lease and Byron returned to live at Newstead and began extensive and expensive renovations. His works were mainly decorative, however, rather than structural, so that rain and damp obscured his changes within just a few years. Byron had a beloved Newfoundland dog named Boatswain, who died of rabies in 1808. Boatswain was buried at Newstead Abbey and has a monument larger than his master's. The inscription, from Byron's poem "Epitaph to a Dog", has become one of his best-known works: Near this Spot Are deposited the Remains
Operation Boatswain seen, by the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv.However, not until January 2015 did Archivist of AJEX and historian, Martin Sugarman, succeed after a long campaign, in persuading the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in formally commemorating the 23 Palmach men on their web site and also the inscribing of all their names on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood, Surrey. In this he was assisted by Col Neri Areli of the IDF Missing in Action Commission. Operation Boatswain Operation Boatswain was the first of the operational missions carried out by the Palmach as part of the cooperation between the Jewish