Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 31 August 2023
In November we travelled down to Yorkshire. One of the places we passed through was Boston Spa. Its War Memorial is a stone pillar surmounted by a cross and lies by the main street through the town:-


Dedications plus World War 2 names:-

Great War Names:-


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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 14 September 2021
Stanley is a town in County Durham.
I took a wrong turning there and ended up going down a street called Shield Row where I spotted this memorial in front of Shield Row Community House.
Given the uniforms the figures bear (Great War infantry and Royal Flying Corps) and its fresh look this would seem to be a Great War 100th anniversary construction.

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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 12 September 2021
Curiously this War Memorial was only dedicated in 2015. It certainly has the look of one only recently constructed. It is situated in the town’s Market Place set off from it by replica artillery shells. Information about the town’s original War memorial is on this webpage.
This side has representations of a World War 2 soldier and sailor plus two Royal Navy ships and a Spitfire.

Closer view:-

Names and dedication:-

The reverse view is emblazoned with a Lancaster bomber and poppies replacing the Spitfire:-

Detail. One Great War name, one World War 2 name, 2 post 1945 names:-

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Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 16 October 2018
I seem not to have posted this before even though I took the photogaphs in April 2012.
Stratford-upon-Avon has two civic war memorials, one for the Great War, moved to near the river from its original location, and another for the Second World War on a wall nearby.
Great War Memorial:-

World War 2 memorial:-

This web page shows the memorials’ relative dispositions.
On another nearby wall is King Edward’s School Boat Club War Memorial – for both wars:-

Between the Great War Memorial and the Second World War Memorial lies a memorial to an individual. I’m afraid I can no longer remember whom it commemorates and the writing is too indistinct to make out when magnified.

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