A service of re-dedication and remembrance

1. The re-dedicated Normandy Veterans seat
St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria
[Armistice Day anniversary, Tuesday 11 November 2014] 

2. "In memory of all who died in the Battle of Normandy 1944"
[The dedication of the N.V.A. West Cumbria Branch (No. 51)]

3. The N.V.A. plaque and tributes of remembrance
[Armistice Day anniversary, Tuesday 11 November 2014]

4. Poppy crosses placed in remembrance of loved ones
[The box contains sand from one of the Normandy beaches]

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"Missing" by Clara Bernhardt

The framed poem by Clara Berhardt
Displayed at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum
(Based at the wartime R.A.F. East Kirkby)

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A time to remember at Rheged, Cumbria

1. Entrance to the modern Rheged Discovery Centre
[Situated near Penrith, Cumbria]

2. Poster for a WW1 film about life on the home front
[Film compiled by the North West Film Archive]

3. Poster for a WW2 3-D film about "D-Day"
[Shown at Rheged, Cumbria (Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2015)] 

4. "Distant Dreams" by the artist Peter Lewis
[Part of Rheged's exhibition "The Art of Remembering"]

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Roy Chadwick: 'father' of the Lancaster Bomber

1. Tribute to Roy Chadwick,  CBE, FRAeS (1893 - 1947)
(Designer of the Avro Lancaster Bomber)

2. 'Just Jane', an Avro Lancaster Bomber

3. 'Just Jane', in the hangar of the wartime RAF East Kirkby

 Photographs taken at: 

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre, Spilsby, Lincs. 

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Tribute to the "Dambusters" (617 Squadron)

1. WW2 "Dambusters" tribute 
(with photographs and autographs)

2. 50th anniversary tribute of the dams raid (1943 - 1993)

3. Exhibits telling the WW2 story of 617 Squadron

4. A Barnes Wallis "Bouncing Bomb" on display

 Photographs taken at: 
the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum

(Based at the wartime R.A.F. East Kirkby airfield)

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Irthington War Memorial, Cumbria

1. St Kentigern's Parish Church and war memorial, Cumbria. 

2. Irthington War Memorial, St Kentigern's churchyard

3. Dedication and list of WW1 names on the war memorial

4. Dedication and WW2 names on the war memorial

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The wartime refuge of Stanislas Bender

1. Lourdes in the High Pyrenees of southern France
[Wartime refuge for the Jewish painter Stanislas Bender]

2. Lourdes Parish Church
[Dedicated to the Sacred Heart]

3. The Lady Chapel and WW1 Parish War Memorial,

4. "The ecstasy of Bernadette" by Stanislas Bender
[In the St Bernadette Chapel of Lourdes Parish Church] 

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