Village Memorials

[MalcolmII]

Stirlingshire I find hard to believe, The Peoples Republic of South Lanarkshire - now there's a different area!
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MalcolmII

[the_historian]

Aye well, South Lanarkshire hasn't got the monopoly on Commissars these days, not since the '96 reorganisation. Wonder what the excuse in Cowie was in the twenties? I spent months scouring every public record I could find, including the churches, and couldn't find mention of anyone even suggesting building one. :angry:

[Gerry Chester]

The Imperial Museum has an ongoing project to log all the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Memorials in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and to record all the names thereon. The last I heard (about a year ago) much information is now in their records and there is a possibility the data will be listed on a website at some future date.

Anyone have any updated news?

[Kiwiwriter]

They do the exact same thing in New Zealand...a huge World War I memorial, and chiseled at the bottom is the addition for the World War II casualties. In Christchurch, they chiselled the additional battles of World War II on panels on the Memorial Arch on Cashel Street, and then chiselled in three more on another panel for Malaya, Borneo, and Vietnam. The Americans have not done so. They built huge World War I memorials and simply left it at that. In recent years, they have begun building separate World War II, Korea, and Vietnam memorials. 9/11 memorials began almost right away.

[MalcolmII]

Originally posted by Gerry Chester@Nov 7 2004, 11:30 PM
The Imperial Museum has an ongoing project to log all the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Memorials in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and to record all the names thereon. The last I heard (about a year ago) much information is now in their records and there is a possibility the data will be listed on a website at some future date.

Anyone have any updated news?

Quoted post

You can email the IWM UK Memorial team and get a listing for the area. I got one for Comrie and Crieff for work I am doing at the moment. I was involved in a small way in collecting some information in Edinburgh area.
See:
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00g00c

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MalcolmII

[Belville]

Originally posted by Gerry Chester@Nov 8 2004, 05:30 AM
The Imperial Museum has an ongoing project to log all the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Memorials in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and to record all the names thereon.
Anyone have any updated news?

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The I.W.M. does plan to put its inventory on-line, and include a searchable database of the names recorded. To see a similar, though much smaller, project in the Republic of Ireland, see:

www.irishwarmemorials.ie

In fact, there are a large number of WWII memorials and graves here. Some are for Allied servicemen who crashed or were washed up on the shores (and also some Germans), but also memorials to Irishmen who fought on the Allied side.

[CROONAERT]

Originally posted by Paul Reed@Oct 17 2004, 03:45 PM
So, lots of complicated and varying reasons, I suspect, for why men are or are not commemorated on these monuments.

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One of which always amused me on one of the local memorials in Nelson, Lancashire. In the list of WW1 dead is a Private Fred Catlow MM. He actually died in the back of a taxi in 1955! His sister ,Elsie,(Medical Officer for the area) was apparantly quite a formidable woman and it seems that she may have insisted upon his inclusion on the memorial!!!!

[Belville]

Originally posted by Gerry Chester@Nov 8 2004, 05:30 AM
The Imperial Museum has an ongoing project to log all the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 Memorials in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and to record all the names thereon. Anyone have any updated news?

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The latest news is that Jane Furlong, who is Director of this project, is planning to put it on the web in the near future (there may be 75,000 memorials in all). She also plans to add up to 3,500,000 names as well.
Belville