In the inscription "they gave their lives" is given as a quotation but its source is not obvious. When we visited, in addition to a few ...
We searched the garden and could not find the list of names referenced in the inscription. War Memorials Online has: "Memorial paved ga...
Through the gates you can see that most of the names are nicely picked out but that some panels are damaged by what looks like damp (as y...
Four standing girls adorn the corners of the plinth. At their feet are cornucopia and in one hand they each clutch a bunch of laurel leav...
The WW2 civilian list identifies 14 people who worked in civil defence and what their role was. Usually lists of civilian dead give the f...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
{On the risers of three steps at the front of the cross:} Thanks be to God who gave us the victory. In proud and grateful memory of the o...
The quotation comes from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865' by James Russell Lowell. Its right-justification and t...
The screen wall at the back, south, of the memorial carries a number of bronze panels listing the names.
There are so many issues with this memorial, it's difficult to know where to begin. We take the main part of the inscription to mean tha...
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