It is sometimes claimed that women are not commemorated on war memorials. This is not true but you do have to look a bit harder to find them, only because their casualty rates weren’t as high. However, their contribution to the war effort is not as visible. This is set to be addressed by Sheffield Council who [...]
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Proposal for a memorial to Sheffield’s Women of Steel
Posted in In the news, memorials, New or restored, Uncategorized, war memorial, tagged civilians, Industry, New, War work, Women, WW2 on 29 April, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New memorials erected in Penarth
Posted in New or restored, tagged New, VC, WW1 on 10 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Certain people in Penarth have been busy recently as a couple of new memorials have been erected. One, commemorating two Penarth-born men who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Great War, has been placed on the front wall of the Penarth District Council Offices in Stanwell Road, Penarth. The second, placed in Penarth RFC [...]
New National WW1 and WW2 memorial proposed in Dover
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged Commonwealth, New, WW1, WW2 on 7 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Plans have recently been unveiled to create a new national war memorial in Dover. The proposed memorial would stand in Drop Redoubt, a disused Napoleonic Fort on Dover’s Western Heights. It would include a series of free-standing stone walls listing all those from the UK and Commonwealth countries who died in the First and Second world wars - an incredible 1.7 million names, [...]
New memorial to Porton Down test subjects
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged National Memorial Arboretum, New on 2 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A tree and plaque have been dedicated at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, in memory of servicemen used as test subjects during the Cold War. Hundreds of servicemen took part in experiments between 1939 and 1989 at the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down laboratories. The tests included being exposed to chemicals such as Sarin and mustard gas and other nerve [...]
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 [...]
A new memorial for Southwater?
Posted in In the news, New or restored, tagged New, WW2 on 10 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Second World War veteran, Bob Piper, is leading calls for a new war memorial to be erected in Southwater, West Sussex. While the town has a memorial plaque inside the local church, Mr Piper believes a more substantial memorial should be built. He also comments that, ”the Church is not for everybody in this day and age.” [...]
New memorial to Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces
Posted in New or restored, tagged New on 12 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday a new memorial was unveiled at The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints, Farnborough Road, Aldershot, that commemorates the Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces. Read more from Surrey and Hants Star The memorial consists of a rough-hewn block of Purbeck stone. Three older memorial plaques were also incorprated into the new memorial stone. Aldershot was [...]
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 [...]
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. Read more from BBC NEWS 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 [...]
