The Castle and Regimental Museum, Monmouth, is a small volunteer-run museum which tells the story of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia). The museum displays a wide range of artefacts relating to the Regiment, which can trace its origins back to the militia of the sixteenth century. It also holds the records of the Regiment, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family history’
Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2-4 May 2008
Posted in Events, tagged Family history on 23 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UKNIWM staff will again be running a stand with colleagues from the Imperial War Museum at the Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE show this year. It takes place from 2 – 4 May in the Grand Hall, Olympia, London.
This is the second year the event has been run and last year we all [...]
Remembrance Sunday 11 November – meet the staff
Posted in Events, tagged Family history, Imperial War Museum, Remembrance Sunday on 1 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
11 November is Remembrance Sunday and staff from the UK National Inventory of War Memorials will be at three different branches of the Imperial War Museum, answering questions about war memorials, remembrance and tracing military family history.
Each branch will also hold an armistice memorial ceremony at 11am.
You can see us at the following branches
Sunday 11th November at IWM Duxford Read [...]
New searchable post-WW2 Roll of Honour database
Posted in FAQs, In the news, tagged Family history, Names on 11 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We receive regular enquiries from people searching for service personnel who died after the end of the Second World War. While fatalities from the First and Second World War are well documented by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Debt of Honour database, until now there was no easy way to search for those who had [...]
National Family History Fair – 8 September
Posted in Events, tagged Family history, Imperial War Museum on 5 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Along with colleagues from the Imperial War Museum, we’ll be manning a stall at the National Family History Fair at Gateshead International Stadium this Saturday, 8 September.
We always enjoy getting out and about talking to people interested in war memorials and discussing how information, both on memorials and in our archive, can help with family history research.
Read more about the [...]
Mystery memorial found
Posted in FAQs, tagged Family history, Lost, Names, WW1 on 16 July, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last week we received a phone call from Christchurch Borough Council. They had discovered a marble memorial tablet in a heap of rubbish dumped on one of their beaches. The memorial refered to the men of the parish who had joined the colours (i.e. served in the forces) during the First World War, and listed 4 [...]
Remembering each casualty
Posted in FAQs, tagged CWGC, Family history, Names, WW2 on 25 June, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We received a letter recently from someone asking for help locating the name of their father (a Second World War Navy casualty) on a war memorial. She had visited the two large Commonwealth War Grave Commission memorials in the area but had been unable to locate his name on either.
The answer to the query can be found in the fact [...]
