Following his one day visit to Iraq on 17th December Gordon Brown announced that the Basra memorial wall, where he laid a wreath in memory of the 178 servicemen and women who have died in Iraq, would be brought back along with British troops to ’a fitting resting place of its own in our own country’. The brick wall, which [...]
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Basra Memorial to Iraq Casualties to come home with Troops
Posted in Events, In the news, New or restored, tagged Iraq on 23 December, 2008 | 2 Comments »
New memorial to Iraq casualty – LCpl Ryan Lee Francis
Posted in New or restored, tagged Iraq, New on 14 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new memorial plaque has been unveiled at Llanelli District Cemetery for a local soldier who died in action in Iraq on 7 July 2007.
Lance Corporal Francis was the driver of a Warrior armoured fighting vehicle that was hit by a roadside bomb while on patrol in northern Basra. He was 23 years old and on his third tour of duty in [...]
Memorial park vandalised for second time in 3 months
Posted in Damage and theft, tagged Iraq, Scotland on 19 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A play park in Aberdeen, dedicated to a young serviceman killed by a sniper in Iraq last year, has been vandalised for the second time in just three months.
In the first incident £4,000 of damage was caused and a 9 year old boy was charged with the offence. Police are appealing for witnesses to the latest [...]
Blidworth unveils its first war memorial
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, New on 5 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In October we reported that Glenrothes in Scotland was about to unveil its first war memorial.
This weekend, Blidworth, a village in Nottinghamshire, has also unveiled its first memorial. Commemorating soldiers who have died from the First World War onwards, it includes the name of Private Andrew Cutts, who was killed while serving in Afghanistan last year.
Glenrothes also featured the [...]
Allan Douglas Park
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged Iraq on 24 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A young soldier, killed last year in Iraq, is commemorated in his home town of Aberdeen through the naming of a park in his honour.
The Allan Douglas park was officially named in September 2007. As a place where Lance Corporal Douglas played as a youngster, the project was part of a community regeneration project.
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First war memorial for Glenrothes
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged Iraq, New, Scotland on 23 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Glenrothes in Scotland, a town that was established in 1948, will shortly be unveiling its first war memorial.
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Having been founded after the Second World War, it is perhaps not suprising that the town did not have a war memorial. However, the deaths in Iraq in 2004 of two Black Watch soldiers from [...]
Royal Anglian Afghanistan Memorial Fund
Posted in In the news, tagged Iraq, regiments on 14 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment has set up a fund to raise money for a permanent memorial to members of the regiment killed while serving in Afghanistan and to provide assistance to severely injured soldiers and their families. The battalion has over 600 soldiers deployed in the northern sector of Helmand province, where some of [...]
Iraq war memorial exhibition
Posted in Events, In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged Iraq on 23 May, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A new art exhibition opens today at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, showcasing the ideas of 25 international artists for a memorial to the Iraq War.
BBC NEWS | Iraq’s war reaches the arts world
We have currently recorded 20 memorials to the ongoing Iraq War. Search under War – ‘IRAQ (21C)’
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