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

    Remember when you park your bike.
    Bushey Rose Garden Hertfordshire

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  2. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Congleton Memorial
     

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  3. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    I found this very small memorial on the cliffs along the south coast, near the Seven Sisters, Seaford.

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    The text on the plaque tells a sad story;

    This plaque commemorates the soldiers who died in this area and specifically in this field during
    World War II. Their numbers are unknown but their memory lives on.


    The following is a personal testimony from Corporal LESLIE EDWARDS 1920 - 2004 a local man
    who served in the area and laid poppies on this spot every Remembrance Day until his death.


    "I will never forget the day in 1940 when a Canadian company came to Cuckmere and pitched their
    tents in this field. I was stationed here and knew that bombers regularly used this valley for
    navigation purposes.I tried to tell the commanding officer but he was not interested in what I had to
    say. Two mornings later the Messerschmitts arrived. Just as the sun was rising they came skimming
    over the water and up the valley. Around Alfriston they banked hard and came back. Bearing down
    on the tents they opened fire. Steam, soil and grass rose in front of them as bullets and bombs
    entered the ground. All the young men in the marquees and bell tents were killed. The commanding
    officer, who was shaving at the time in the middle coastguard cottage, died instantly when a shell
    went through the wall that held his mirror."


    Remember me when I am gone away.
    Gone far away into the silent land.
    Christina Rossetti


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  4. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    WW1 plates etc missing from Cooler King post for Clitheroe
     

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  5. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Hoddlesden War Memorial
    Not too distant from Darwen, Lancashire.
     

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  6. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Darlington War Memorial.
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  7. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Simonstone, Lancashire
    Stone tablets on school wall
     

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  8. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Whalley, Lancashire
     

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  9. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Bollington, Lancashire
     

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  10. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Great Harwood, Lancashire
    WW1 Names and others absent from Cooler Kings post
     

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  11. Richard Lewis

    Richard Lewis Member

    A bit of controversy over this cairn, see Cuckmere Valley
     
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  12. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    Thank you Richard. I'm sorry I didn't do a better job of searching this forum before posting...if I had, I probably wouldn't have posted my photos!
     
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  13. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire
    Situated in Mercer Park
     

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  14. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Coppull, Lancashire
    There is no stone plinth etc with names on within the garden, however St John the Divine Parish church (3 minute away) has simple cross with parish names embossed in base.
     

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  15. CL1

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

    Tottenham Cemetery Civilian Memorial

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  16. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Leek, Staffordshire
     

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  17. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Chelmorton, Derbyshire
    Situated within village church of St John the Baptist.
    Memorial plaques situated within the Memorial Institute. (Only open during village events)
     

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  18. jamesmurrow

    jamesmurrow Senior Member

    Sefton, Merseyside
    Opposite St Helen's church
    (Replaces a previous posting that has been lost!)
     

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  19. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Hinckley, Leicestershire

    Built on top of the remains of the motte of the original Hinckley Castle
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  20. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Wareham War Memorial, Dorset

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    WWI

    Pte. Sydney Allingham
    P. O. William E. Batty
    Pte. Arthur F. Best
    Cpl. Leonard C. Best
    Pte. Frederick Bridle
    Pte. Frederick Burgess
    Ian H.P. Burgess A. B.
    Pte. Reginald Chilcott
    Pte. Frank W. Coakes
    Pte. George Collins
    Gnr. Joseph Cottrell
    Lt. Kilcoursie S. Courtenay
    Gnr. Harry Cox
    Pte. Albert Davidge
    Pte. James R. Elmes
    Pte. Henry T. Fooks
    Pte. Lionel A. Fowler
    Pte. Leonard H. Fry
    Sergt. William T. Gill
    Pte. Charles Gould
    Pte. Jesse C. Gover
    L/Cpl. William C. Grant
    Pte. Ambrose H. Green
    Sergt. Richard G. Heath
    Pte. John Henstridge
    Pte. William Hill
    Sergt. Reginald F.B. Hodge
    Pte. Percy W. Joyce M.M.
    Pte. Jack Kenway
    Pte. Herbert W. Kenway
    2nd. lt. Edred S. Lacey
    Pte. Harry T.S. Legg
    Lt. John A. Lennon
    L/Cpl. Ernest C. Lillington
    L/Cpl. Frederick J. Lock
    Pte. Sidney C. Marshallsay
    Stoker Frederick Masters
    Pte. Thomas Meade
    William R. Merchant A.B.
    L/Cpl. Frank Miller
    2nd. Lt. James Miller D.C.M.
    Pte. William Miller
    Pte. Arthur Northover
    Pte. Caleb J. Orchard
    Sergt. William Orchard
    Pte. Edward S. Paul
    Harry Piper A.B.
    Pte. Albert R. Richards
    Pte. John H. Riggs
    Pte. William H.L. Rogers
    Stoker Albert H. Samways
    Pte. Wilfred G. Selby
    Cpl. William H. Selby
    Pte. Horace P. Slade
    P.O. William J. Stewart
    Stoker P.O. Frederick J. Stockley
    Driver Harry Stockley
    Pte. Wilfred J. Stockley
    Sapper George Stout
    Pte, Harold F.C. Symonds
    Stoker Richard J. Thomas
    Pte. Archibald E. Thompson
    Cpl. William G. Toms
    L/Cpl. Alfred Trimarco
    Pte. Dan Wellstead
    Lt. Albert N. Westlake
    Trooper William P. White
    Sergt. Edwin Whittle
    Sergt. Joseph A. Whittle
    Pte. Stephen Whittle
    Cpl. Sydney Whittle
    Gnr. Bertie E. Trent


    WWII
    L.A.C. Edmund Thomas Arnold
    Signaller Morris Arnold
    Flt. Sgt. Edward Bartlett
    Gunner William Henry Biles
    L/Bdr. George Brown
    Pte. William George Burden
    Pilot Officer Alan Russell Carrick
    Ldg/Stoker Stephen Charles Comben
    Signalman Leon Day
    Seaman Ronald Diment
    James Donaghue
    Seaman Frank Herd
    Pte. Alfred Joseph Howarth
    Seaman Lawton Lawrence
    Pte. Sidney Marshallsay
    Stoker Harold Leslie Morgan
    Sgt. Pilot George Nichol
    Seaman Albert F. Orchard
    Pte. Charles Samways
    A/B Wilfred Selby
    Pte. Raymond Singer
    Sgt./Ob/Nav. Dennis Slade
    L/Cpl. Horace Richard Slade
    Lieut. Duncan Snell
    Sapper Leonard John Spreadbury
    Sub/Lieut. William Thomas
    Pte. Alfred William George Velvick
     
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