Glastonbury War Memorial
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 25 November 2024
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 25 November 2024
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 21 November 2024
The War Memorial for the city of Wells in Somerset is in the grounds of St Cuthbert’s Church, on St Cuthbert’s Street. It has the form of a pillar surmounted by a lantern cross with bronze figures set on a square plinth above an octagonal base.
The Great War names are in square panels on the plinth. World War 2 names have been inscribed between the first and second octagonal steps:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 17 November 2024
Boer War Memorial:-
Great War Memorial to Somerset freemasons. I don’t recall ever seeing a memorial to freemasons before:-
To Herbert Robert Charles Tudway, Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, died 18/11/1914 aged 26:-
To those who served in the Somerset Light Infantry:-
Roll of Honour, Somerset:-
Book of Remembrance pages. The book enumerates all Somerset natives who died in the Great War:-
Book of Remembrance pages for Bath:-
Somerset Light Infantry Battle Honours and names:-
Posted in Trips, War Graves at 11:00 on 11 November 2024
Today is Armistice Day, which ended the hostilities of the Great War 106 years ago.
I posted some photos of Duhallow War Cemetery yesterday but today I’m concentrating on the Great War dead. Duhallow contains graves of men from several of the armies involved in that conflict.
The next two photos feature pillars which note the men commemorated there were originally buried in other cemeteries which were destroyed in later battles.
Crescent of Headstones; original burials in Fusilier Wood:-
Line of Headstones; transferred from Malakoff Farm Cemetery:-
I presumed these markers denoted the graves of brothers Privates W & A Barr, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918:-
I found two French graves.
Jules Viard and Jean Carret, both mort pour la France, 24/10/1918:-
And a Belgian grave, of Antoine Vandegam, died 19/10/1918. The photo also shows the graves of Sapper, J Rooney, RE, October, 1918 aged 25 and Serjeant P Hackett, Leinster Regiment, 18/10/1918:-
Star of David headstone for Private S Margolis, Labour Corps, 9/1/1918, aged 24, flanked by Private P Montague, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918 and Private W Middleton, Seaforth Highlanders, 9/1/1918:-
Two Germans; Curt Hoyer, Grenadier, 16/10/1918 and Johann Hobelsberger, Private, date of death obscured:-
The front row below is for other German war dead:-
Posted in Trips, War Graves at 11:00 on 10 November 2024
For Remembrance Day.
Duhallow is one of the many War Cemeteries you come upon in and around Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium. It lies beside the Diksmuidseweg on theĀ road designated N369 leading more or less north out of Ypres. In it there lie the remains of 1544 Commonwealth casualties plus 57 graves of other nationalities.
Cemetery from road:-
View from gates:-
Graves:-
One of the graves is of a Second World War soldier, Private D Morrell, Durham Light Infantry, who died on 29/5/1940, aged 21:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 31 October 2024
Bath’s War Memorial lies just down from the Royal Crescent at the junction of Royal Avenue and Queen’s Parade Place. It takes the form of a memorial wall with a Cross of Sacrifice before it:-
The inscription on the cross reads:-
To the left of the memorial is a plaque in memory of those who died in air raids on the city:-
The first plaques on the left of the memorial wall are a Great War addendum plus a dedication to Forces, Civil Defence and Special PCs:-
Continuing from left to right are the Great War Names:-
The Great War Dedication, “They died for us, men of Bath who fell in the Great War 1914-1918” lies above the name plaques:-
Middle Great War plaque (World War 2 dedication below):-
Final Great War plaque:-
Second World War Names:-
Plaque to civilians and Service personnel:-
Post 1945 dedication and names:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 23:04 on 13 October 2024
Bradford-on-Avon‘s War Memorial is an obelisk standing on a square base with urns at the base’s quarters. It occupies a small green space near the bridge over the Avon at the town’s centre:-
Great War dedication and names Adams-Curtis;-
Great War names, Dagger – White:-
Unveiling dedication:-
World War 2 dedication and names:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 30 September 2024
King’s Bromley (or Kings Bromley, the spelling is apparently variable) in Staffordshire is on the way south from Ashbourne to Lichfield. I spotted its War Memorial as we were passing through.
A granite cross on a stepped square plinth:-
Great War dedication and names:-
Second World War dedication and names:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 26 September 2024
Going south last September we passed through the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire and as a result happened upon its War Memorial, a set of gates under an archway plus a low wall:-
Great War Names respectively, above, to left and right of arch:-
Second World War names are displayed on the extremities of the walls:-
A memorial to those who served is located in a Memorial Garden to rear of the War Memorial:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 12:00 on 24 September 2024
Ashford in the Water‘s Great War Memorial lies close to a wall of the parish Church of the Holy Trinity. A granite cross above a plinth displaying the names of the dead:-
The Second World War Memorial is set into the church’s wall:-
In the church grounds I found this War Grave, of a Millitary Medal recipient, Private J Johnson, Hampshire Regiment, 1/8/1918, aged 21.
Ashford in the Water also has a War Memorial Hall, with a statue of a soldier in the foreground:-