This site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting for their
country. Recorded here are various war memorials within a variety of counties,
it is fully intended to complete as many war memorials in the United Kingdom
as possible. A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, plaque or
other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern
times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war. The counties
and the war memorials completed for each are listed on
a separate page. Photographs have been taken of the majority
of the memorials, details of the men included and their photographs where
possible. All counties are based on the pre-1974 reorganisation of the
political divisions in the United Kingdom. The main sections have a
menu at the top of the page of sections that are available, these
are on drop down lists. A site map has been
provided as well.
The
war memorials and rolls of honour cover a variety of Regiments,
airfields and air bases as
well as the memorials and cemeteries in the countries
overseas where the men fell.
Much
of the information has been found using the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission site. To supplement this information the Soldiers
Died in the Great War CD's and the Roll of Honour books all available
from Naval
& Military Press were also used. Other resources include
the London Gazette, Local Newspapers, facts from family members and various
other pieces of information from old books and magazines.
All
the information here has been supplied by volunteers. If you have any
information about the various items appearing here or wish to supply information
then please use the feedback form. We will
publish searchable databases and war memorials plus photographs accreditation
being to those who own or have supplied the various content.
For
those of you wanting to visit the places where these men and women are
buried we have compiled a page devoted to Tour companies
that specialise in this area.
Aims of
this web site
This website:
promotes
historical knowledge as a tool for peace and understanding between peoples
and nations.
does
not seek to glorify the British Empire or any form of imperialism.
does
not seek to glorify war, or advocate war as a solution to disputes.
uses
crown icons and other royal/imperial symbols as an historical device,
and not a political statement.
endeavours
to be as accurate as possible but sometimes is not; any entries that
are erroneous will be changed in the fullness of time given notification
To
search for dates of additions or updates to pages a full month
with year can be inserted into the search box. So if you want
to find everything updated/added in October 2021 you would
insert "October 2021" the quote marks being important,
for the whole of 2021 simply enter the year 2021.
Casualty Lists Spreadsheets hosted on behalf of Diane (Bardess)
- compiled from casualty lists uploaded to the Great War Forum.
Please click the following link to download the spreadsheet
(10.1Mb) - Casualty Lists. The spreadsheet was last updated
on Tuesday 28th July 2009. Hyperlinks are provided to the National
Archives' Medal Index Cards and, where appropriate, the CWGC 'Debt
of Honour Register'. Great work, Diane!
DONATIONS
This
site is maintained solely by volunteers and is funded by them as private
individuals. This includes the purchase of photographs, books, rolls of
honour plus the running costs of the site. We have always intended to
make this site free to all. If you have gained from this site then please
consider making a donation through PayPal by clicking on the donation
button. Thank you.
If
you would like to donate but not on-line then cheques can be made payable
to, and sent to:
Martin
Edwards
88 Laurel Walk
Kempston
Bedford
MK42 7NT
The
Naval & Military Press offer specialist books and ground
breaking CD-ROMs for the serious student of conflict. Their hand
picked range of books covers the whole spectrum of military history
with titles on uniforms, battles, official and regimental histories,
specialist works containing medal rolls and casualties lists as
well as titles for genealogists, medal collectors and researchers.
The innovative approach they have to military bookselling and their
commitment to publishing have made them Britain’s leading
independent military bookseller.
Query
Policy
Due
to the lask of resource it is not always possible for us to
reply to emails, especially research of individuals. We are
not a full-time organisation with staff, we are amateurs trying
to collate as much information as we can. As such we research
memorials as and when we can. The volume of emails received
precludes us from answering all but we do try.
Occasionally
people are looking, for a variety of reasons, for various families
of those who died in conflict. The latest requests are held
on the Information Requests page.
We
are always looking for volunteers to help. All information included
on the site is accredited to the person who worked on it. You need
help with transciptions, research and photographs.
Contact
the site owner, Martin
Edwards, if you are interested in helping. There is a Word
Template available for those who wish to you use it to transcribe.
If you left click on the link (not right) it will load into Word
and you can save it into your templates folder as a base for new
transcription documents.
STOP
PRESS
Currently
we have a huge backlog of around 10,000+ emails to get through containing
new memorials and amendments. As we are volunteers we can only devote
so much of our spare time to this so please bear with us. Although
we do try to reply to emails the volume is such that we cannot guarantee
a response, sorry but there is a huge amount of emails coming in
and it is just not possible.
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