by Irene Glausiusz, Office Volunteer ‘Many war memorials commemorate people who have died’ said Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy, Head of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, when he spoke at City Hall in London during the recent 2012 Holocaust Memorial Day event, hosted by Mayor of London Boris Johnson. What is different about the monument in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WW2’
‘Speak Up, Speak Out’ Holocaust Memorial Day, City Hall, 24th January 2012
Posted in In the news, Memorials Abroad, Uncategorized, Unusual memorials, tagged Holocaust, WW2 on 14 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Missing memorials found in the Tower of London
Posted in Damage and theft, Memorials from the archive, Uncategorized, tagged Lost, regiments, WW2 on 29 March, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Project Assistant, Annette Gaykema. We have had two emails recently from an employee at the Tower of London, informing us that two memorials we had listed as missing were in fact located in the Tower of London. The 38th Jewish Battalion, Royal Fusiliers memorial was believed to have been lost when the Great Synagogue, where [...]
Remote Peakland Crash Site Remembered
Posted in Memorials from the archive, Uncategorized, Unusual memorials, tagged Air Force, Unusual memorials, WW2 on 29 September, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
