Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Eden Camp: "The People's War 1939 - 1945"

Millennium souvenir brochure of Eden Camp museum
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Sunday, 27 July 2014

Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms, London

1. Entrance to the Churchill War Rooms, London
2. Churchill's War Cabinet at Downing Street in 1941
3. The Chiefs of Staff Conference Room
4. Part of the interactive exhibition at the museum
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Thursday, 17 July 2014

The War Memorial of Wigton, Cumbria

1. Wigton War Memorial, Cumbria (Wigton Cemetery)
2. The WW1 names on Wigton war memorial
3. The WW2 names on Wigton war memorial
4. CWGC headstone of Sub-Lt. R.M. Aitken, R.N.
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Saturday, 12 July 2014

The Village War Memorials of St Bees, Cumbria

1. The two village war memorials of St Bees, Cumbria
2. Statue of St Bega with St Bees priory in the background

3. The west door of St Bees Priory Church (c.1140)

4. Names of the St Bees WW2 service casualties
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Saturday, 28 June 2014

Sub-Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, RNVR (1924 - 1944)

 1. Sub Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, R.N.V.R. (1924)
[Courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']
2. Sub Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, R.N.V.R. (1924)
[Courtesy of Mr. David Mason of Whitehaven]
 3. Letter from Mr Cyril Moore (Snr.), April 1947
(To the Town Clerk, Whitehaven Town Council)

[Courtesy of Cumbria County Archives, Whitehaven]

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Saturday, 14 June 2014

Pte. Frank Newall, Border Regiment (1919 - 1944)

 1. Private Francis ('Frank') Newall, Border Regiment
[Photograph courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']
 2. Headstone of Pte. Frank Newall, Border Regiment
(Lille Southern Cemetery, Grave Ref.: 5 / A / 21)
[Photograph taken with permission]
 3. St John's Parish Church, Hensingham, Cumbria 
[Where Frank Newall was baptised (06/04/1919)]
4. St Bridget's Parish Church, Moresby, Cumbria
[Where Frank Newall married Jessie Agnew (1942)]
5. John Young Charlton and Frank Newall
(with an unidentified relative in Naval uniform)
[Photograph contributed by Valerie Stephenson]
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Sunday, 8 June 2014

Two Brothers who remain forever young

 1. Normandy Veterans Association Memorial Tablet
[St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria]
 2. Poppies in remembrance of Robert and Joseph Casson
[70th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 2014]
3. The Casson family headstone (Whitehaven Cemetery)
[It commemorates five members of the family

 4. Joseph Casson (left) and Robert Casson (right)
[Two brothers buried side-by-side in Normandy]
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