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Visitor numbers to the The National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, have risen sharply since the opening of the new Armed Forces Memorial last autumn.  They are now looking to recruit more volunteers to help run the site. 
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Corporal John Rigby, a young British soldier who was killed in June this year after being injured in a roadside bomb in Iraq, has had his name added his home town’s war memorial.
Cpl. Rigby died on his 24th birthday with his twin brother Will, a corporal in the same battalion, by his side.
The memorial cross in Rye, [...]

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The Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, unveiled on Friday 12 October 2007, is now on the UKNIWM database.
 Look at the Armed Forces Memorial record

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The new Armed Forces memorial was opened today by Her Majesty The Queen.
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This is a very significant event as this is the first national memorial to commemorate all those who have died in service since 1 January 1948.  As well as remembering those killed in conflict, it also lists the many servicemen and women [...]

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The Armed Forces Memorial, is a new memorial currently being constructed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.  It is due to be complete by Autumn 2007 and will be the only memorial that lists the names of all 16,000 servicemen and women killed on duty or by terrorist action since the end of the Second World [...]

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