Can you photograph your local war memorial? (UK)

Discussion in 'War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research' started by dbf, Nov 22, 2009.

  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Hyde Park London
    Inscription on the front by path
    This stone was erected by the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Norwegian Merchant Fleet in the year 1978. We thank the British people for friendship and hospitality during the Second World War. You gave us a safe haven in our common struggle for freedom and peace.

    Inscription on back
    This boulder was brought here from Norway where it was worn and shaped for thousands of years by forces of nature, frost, running water, rock, sand and ice until it obtained its present shape.

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    QF informed there is also a memorial stone in Edinburgh
    Edinburgh, West Princes Street Gardens, Memorial To Scottish Norwegian Training Areas | Canmore
     
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  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Leavesden Parish war memorial,Hertfordshire


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  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Shilton , Oxfordshire.
     

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  4. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    In Flamborough, East Riding of Yorkshire:
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    with an enlargement of the adjacent tablet of names:
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    Both are in a small garden of remembrance near the remains of a local castle. Also collocated is:

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  5. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Goffs Oak war memorial

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    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    'To the immortal memory of those from the Ironstone Area (of Scunthorpe) who gave their lives for their Country':
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    in Scunthorpe Museum Gardens, Oswald Road. An enlargement of the list of those commemorated to the right of the memorial is:
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    Although from a later conflict, some readers will remember Bryan Budd VC, commemorated under Afghanistan, amongst others.
     
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  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    East Lane cemetery WW1 and WW2 Memorial for staff killed who worked at Leavesden Asylum Hertfordshire
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  8. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    St Botolphs Without Aldgate
    London


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    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire.

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  10. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    The Church of St Peter and Our Lady in Glentham, Lincolnshire features the following tablet to WW2 fatalities:
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    Additional details are at:

    Montague Bennett (HMS ACHERON):
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2491652/montague-valentine-bennett/

    Montague Bennett - Wikipedia

    Frederick Alec Beat (2 LINCOLNS):
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2929825/frederick-alec-beat/
    Norman Birks (9 QRL):
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2541459/norman-birks/
    although not seemingly listed at:
    Additional images of WW1 memorials are:
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    ...... shot by a sniper late on Christmas Eve, 1914 - evidently no fraternisation then .....

    with one for general interest and for friends 'across the pond':
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    There ought to be a similar marker for many local men who responded to the beat of the drum when (Castleton's) later Saunderson's Regiment was reformed at the onset of the War of the Spanish Succession and became the 1st Regiment of Marines, 400-ish subsequently taking part in the capture of Gibraltar in 1704:
    https://www.lancashireinfantrymuseum.org.uk/30th-regiment
    The Honour ‘Gibraltar’ is still cited on the cap badge of the Royal Marines.
     
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    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    Stratton House, just opposite Green Park and the Ritz Hotel, slightly above line of sight, so perhaps easily missed:
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    Netherlands Government in exile
     
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