This article was submitted by Derbyshire Volunteer Co-ordinator, Roy Branson
Many aeroplanes crashed in the UK during the Second World War, some as direct casualties of conflict shot down by anti-aircraft fire or in aerial combat, some because they just could not get back to base after sustaining earlier damage. What is lesser known is that in the years immediately following the war navigational [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WW2’
Remote Peakland Crash Site Remembered
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Unusual memorials, tagged Air Force, Unusual memorials, WW2 on 29 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holocaust Remembrance Encourages Present Day Reflection
Posted in Events, In the news, tagged Holocaust, Imperial War Museum, Refugees, Remembrance, WW2 on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer Irene Glausiusz, Chair of the ‘Memorial to Evacuation’ Steering Committee.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, a moving act of remembrance took place on the last Tuesday in January under a cloudless sky beside Southwark Council’s Holocaust Memorial tree in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park outside the Imperial War Museum. The service was [...]
Last Survivor of HMS Hood Dies
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged National Memorial Arboretum, WW2 on 20 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last survivor of the sinking of the World War Two battle cruiser HMS Hood died in October at the age of 85. Ted Briggs was one of only three men out of the crew of 1419 to survive the bombardment of shells from the German battleship Bismarck, which led to the sinking of the [...]
East and West Worlington memorial to be renovated
Posted in New or restored, tagged Add new tag, WW1, WW2 on 20 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following the fundraising efforts of Lt Col Peter Townsend and his wife, Paula, the East and West Worlington memorial in Devon will be getting a timely spruce up. They have raised £1,200 to pay for a dry-stone-waller to tidy up the wall around the memorial and clean the base ready for Remembrance Sunday.
The memorial commemorates 13 local men who died in [...]
We were ALL the last to be picked
Posted in In the news, tagged civilians, WW2 on 16 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Evacuees Reunion Association has launched a campaign to raise funds for a memorial to the evacuation of 3.5 million children, both within the UK and abroad, during the Second World War. The appeal was launched by one of their patrons, Michael Aspel, himself a former evacuee. The Evacuation Reunion Association was formed in 1996 and now [...]
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, making [...]
Malaria and conflict
Posted in In the news, Memorials from the archive, tagged Boer War, civilians, WW2 on 25 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is World Malaria Day. Although malaria has been eradicated from much of the western world, it still kills over a million people each year. It is also strongly linked to conflict. When people are forced to flee their homes, they often end up living in areas were malaria-carrying mosquitos are prevalent and they have little or no access [...]
The Merchant Navy
Posted in Memorials from the archive, tagged Navy, WW1, WW2 on 9 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading an interesting book on the bus on the way into work this morning – ‘Tracing Your Family History: Merchant Navy’. It’s one of a series of guides to tracing military ancestry (Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force being the others) published by the Imperial War Museum.
The Merchant Navy played a crucial role in both world [...]
Cats in the Second World War
Posted in Unusual memorials, tagged Animals, Dickin medal, WW2 on 19 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have previously written about Simon, the ship’s cat on board HMS Amethyst, and the only feline holder of the Dickin medal – the animal’s VC. However, there is another cat who was decorated for her courage…
Faith was the tabby and white coloured church cat of St Faith & St Augustine, Watling Street, just to the east of [...]
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.”
Even [...]
