Can you photograph your local war memorial? (UK)

Grimsargh, nr Preston; Lancashire

 

Croston, nr Leyland; Lancashire

 

Saint Silas,Angel,Islington

 

24th East Surrey,War Memorial,Battersea Park,London

 

Oppy Wood Memorial,St Abbots,Kensington
Capture of Oppy Wood - Wikipedia

 

WW1 memorial Our Lady of Mount Carmel,Kensington

 

Army and Navy Club War Memorial,St James,London

 

Bury, Lancashire.

WW1 memorial in the garden of Gallipoli at the Lancashire Fusiliers museum Bury.

 

Bury Lancashire war memorial.

 

Goostrey, Cheshire. St Luke's Church Grounds

 

Gawsworth, Cheshire.

 

Macclesfield, Cheshire.

 

IWM War Memorial Project.

The IWM is listing all of the memorials in the country and would like contributors to send and /or update their register. The info and access link is below.

Old Register - War Memorials Online - Help us to record, conserve and remember our war memorials

NEW REGISTER: War Memorials Register - The IWM is compiling the War Memorials Register - the comprehensive national register of UK war memorials and the names of the individuals they commemorate. We currently hold records for over 74,000 memorials in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

War memorials form an important part of our cultural heritage and reflect the changing face of commemoration as well as artistic, social, local, family, military and international history. The Register includes memorials to members of the armed forces, civilians and animals from all wars and to those who died in service.

Thank you for your email and your interest in IWM's War Memorials Register.
We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of your email. This is a busy time for the IWM War Memorials Register. We have recently launched the names database displaying the names of individuals commemorated on war memorials: http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search

We will be adding more names to the database over the First World War Centenary. At this time we are unable to answer individual enquiries related to a name listed on a memorial.

If you are interested in volunteering for the War Memorials Register thank you for your interest we will contact you shortly. We are only able to respond to enquiries related to the work of the War Memorials Register. You can find answers to many common questions on memorials through the UK Government War Memorials Portal:
http://ukwarmemorials.org/

Enquiries about War Memorials
· Everything that we currently know about war memorials can be viewed online at http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search
Sharing and uploading new information
· We are working to update the database that holds information on more than 68,000 war memorials across the UK. There are many more across the UK that need to be found.
· These changes will provide significant improvements to how you can find, share, upload and update information on war memorials.
· If you wish to submit information, we will send you a recording form for you to complete and return to us.
· We are working through a back log of records and will add new and updated information to our database as soon as possible. Thank you for your support.
Searching for individuals
War Memorials Register is a significant and important data source for IWM’s Lives of the First World War.
· All the names we have available on the memorials at present, and the names that the public will share with us in the future, will be made available through http://www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org over the Centenary period.
Photographs of war memorials
We are working on making photographs of memorials available through the database. When ready, our new fully functional database will provide a set of criteria for uploading and storing images. If you have an image that meets this new criteria, we’d love to have them.
Reporting War Memorials at Risk or Applying for conservation funding:
· Please contact the Conservation Officer at War Memorials Trust on 020 7233 7356 or visit www.warmemorials.org
Thank you.

 

Snitterfield, St James the Great Church, Warwickshire.



Boer War; Second (1899-1902), THIS TABLET, ERECTED BY THEIR FELLOW PARISHIONERS, PERPETUATES THE NAMES OF TROOPER GEORGE TIMMS/ 5TH (WARWICKSHIRE) COMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY,/ AND PRIVATE JAMES EDWIN HADLAND, 6TH ROYAL/ WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT, BOTH OF SNITTERFIELD/ WHO DIED VALIANTLY FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR AD 1900 - 1901
WMOnline: 198013
IWM Ref:19419


FRANCIS LIONEL OCTAVIUS ATTYE OF INGON GRANGE/ LATE LIEUT. COL 2ND QUEENS ROYAL REGT/ BORN 20 JULY 1830 DIED 22 AUGUST 1885
WMOnline Ref: xxxxx
IWM Ref: 19420


Snitterfield Cross, Kings Lane,

Inscription on the stone bench reads: THE NOBLE EXPANSE VISIBLE FROM THIS SPOT/ WAS SHAKESPEARE'S FAVOURITE COUNTRYSIDE./ THE MEN WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED ON/ THE NEIGHBOURING MONUMENT GAVE THEIR/ LIVES FOR THAT ENGLAND/ "WHICH NEVER DID, AND NEVER SHALL/ LIE AT THE PROUD FOOT OF A CONQUEROR"
WMOnline: 85942
IWM Ref: 38527

 

Was in Harrogate at the weekend for a singing convention and found this rather impressive memorial. I’ll need to resize the rest of the photos to upload them.

 

Norton Lindsey, Holy Trinity Church,

IWM Register - 72229.
Cross on a three-stepped square base surmounted by a square sectioned plinth, octagonal sectioned pad with octagonal shaft & decorative cross.


IWM Register - 19457. Brass plaque with the inscription :- LANCE CORPORAL VAL THORNTON/ QUEENS WESTMINSTER RIFLES/ KILLED IN ACTION YPRES 4TH JUNE 1915.

 

Harrogate, North Yorkshire

 

Markington; North Yorkshire
Memorial book in parish church of St. Michael

 

Ripley; North Yorkshire

 

St James war memorial,St James London