Friday, 28 March 2014

Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial, Cumbria

1. Christ Church, Waverton, Cumbria
[The main war memorial is in the church grounds]
2. Waverton & Dundraw War memorial (church grounds)
3. Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial (front)
4. Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial (sides of plinth)
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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Moor Row and Scalegill War Memorial, Cumbria

 1. Moor Row and Scalegill War Memorial, Cumbria
 2. The original war memorial dedication  (1921)
3. Names of villagers who lost their lives in WW1

4. WW2 dedication (1948) 
[Listing the villagers who died in the 1939 - 1945 war]
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Lowca Village War Memorial, Cumbria

 1. Terraced houses at Lowca village, Cumbria
2. Lowca village War Memorial, Cumbria 
 3. Names listed on Lowca village War Memorial
(World War One and World War Two)
4. Lowca War Memorial commemorative tablet (2008)
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Wednesday, 5 March 2014

The sons of Newlands lost in the World Wars.

 1. Newlands Church (and former school room)
[Near Little Town, Keswick Cumbria]
 2. Stained glass window, Newlands Church 
[Depicting the Archangel St Michael]
 3. Clark family headstone, Newlands Churchyard
[Commemorating two brothers lost in WW2]
4. Headstone of Sgt. John Fisher Thwaite
[Newlands Churchyard, Cumbria]
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Sunday, 2 March 2014

The Jean Vérines Memorial, Paris

1. The Jean Vérines Memorial Tablet, Paris
Outside the Republican Guard barracks.

[12, Place de la République, Paris]

 2. The Jean Vérines Memorial (detail)
3. Statue of 'Marianne' by the Morice Brothers
Marianne is the personification of the French Republic

[Place de la République, Paris]
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Thursday, 13 February 2014

Honouring the Poles who helped liberate France

 1. The Lille War Memorial, Nord, France
 2. Memorial stone for the Polish soldiers of WW2, Lille
 3. Memorial stone for Polish soldiers of WW2, Lille (detail)
4. Wreaths placed at Lille's War Memorial
(V.E. Day, 8 May 2013)

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Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Suffering and loss in Lille and northern France

1. "Melancolia", the Lille War Memorial (Nord)
 2. Floral tributes laid in tribute at Lille War Memorial 
[Wednesday 8 May 2013]
 3. H.R.H. Edward, Prince of Wales, Lille War Memorial
(Laying a wreath in commemoration of Lille's war dead)
[During "The Battlefields Pilgrimage" of August 1928]
4. Display about the German Occupation of 1914 - 1918
[Bondues Resistance Museum, Bondues, Nord, France]
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