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Category Archives: U.K. Churches, Memorials & Cemeteries – Back in Blighty
Saxmundham War Memorial
Now here’s an incongruous juxtaposition if ever I saw one. See what I mean. Although, come to think of it, it does rather ensure a wide audience, does it not? This was the emblem of Combined Operations Command in the … Continue reading
Aldringham – St. Andrew’s Church, War Memorial & Churchyard
Now here’s a nice little church – no church tower, note. And on the outside wall,… …a memorial to eight local men who died during World War II. On the wall inside the church,… …the Great War Roll of Honour, … Continue reading
Aldershot – Holy Trinity Church Roll of Honour
For quite a few years, until fairly recently, when we found a new home, I used to attend meetings of the Aldershot Military Society in a hut next to this church. Over the years, the church was always locked, except … Continue reading
Falmouth – Operation Chariot Memorial
What’s the collective noun for Victoria Crosses, I wonder, because we appear to have a scattering of them here,… This is the memorial, on what is now the Prince of Wales Pier in Falmouth harbour, to the men who participated … Continue reading
Puttenham Church & War Memorial
I’m sure that someone thought they were being highly artistic, or exceedingly modern, or deferentially retrospective,… …when they chose the typeface for the Great War names,… …but the truth of the matter (in the background here, across the road, we … Continue reading
St. Pancras Station Workers War Memorial
St. Pancras Station, one hundred and fifty three years old next month. Thus it was, on 8th November 2018, the station’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday, that this war memorial was unveiled on the Grand Terrace, not so far from … Continue reading