During the Great War Lavery was commissioned as a war artist. Several of his war paintings are on display at the Lavery on Location Exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery.

Mine-Laying Submarines Harwich 1917:-

Hendon 1917. Hendon was a Royal Flying Corps training base. I really liked this as I’m a sucker for biplanes:-

More sombrely this is The Cemetery, Étaples:-

Daylight Raid from my Studio:-

A Coast Defence. An 18-Pounder Anti-Aircraft Gun, Tyneside:-

Lavery was almost alone in portraying those who became casualties. Wounded, London:-

More of Lavery’s works can be seen on the Ulster Museum’s website, here.

Bradwell is a village in the Peak District of Derbyshire. We passed through it on our way to Castleton.

On the way back I stopped to photograph its War Memorial, a Celtic style cross on a stepped tapering square plinth. This face bears the dedication and names for the Great War:-

Side view. World War 2 dedication and names:-

Castleton War Memorial is in the form of a cross with inlaid carvings:-

Side view:-

Great War dedication and names:-

World War 2 dedication and names:-

Two cairns nearby surmounted by rectangular pillars contain the Roll of Honour of those from Castleton who served :-

Hope is a village in the High Peak of Derbyshire. We passed through it on our trip down south last year.

Its War Memorial is in the form of a tapering square pillar. It was erected in gratitude to those who served in the Great War. The dedication includes the villages of Aston, Thornhill, Brough and Shatton along with the names of men who died. There is an additional cartouche for the Second World War dead:-

Names for Hope men who served in the Great War :-

Similarly, names for Aston, for Brough & Shatton and for Thornhill:-

Chapel-en-le-Frith is a town in Derbyshire. It lies off the A6 about seven miles north of Buxton. Its War Memorial is a square broad pillar/column with corner abutments and a domed top, by the B 5740 through the town.

From road :-

West aspect. Erected 1919 to record the honoured names of the men from the parish of Chapel-en-le-Frith who served in the Great War.

A + beside the name denotes the dead. World War 2 names were added later.

North aspect:-

East aspect:-

Penrith’s main War Memorial is in the form of an archway acting as a gateway to Castle Park, Penrith. (There is a Great War Memorial in the grounds of St Andrew’s Church.)

The larger Memorial above is directly across the road from Penith Railway Station which can be seen in the background in this reverse view:-

The name plaques are on the walls of the two alcoves within:-

Great War Dedication and names C J Adam – T Main:-

Great War Dedication and names T Mallinson – T Workman:-

Second World War Dedication and names:-

The village of Blackness‘s War Memorial lies on a turning on the A 903 down from the main A 904 road into Bo’ness just before the approach to Blackness Castle. Blackness originally served as a port for Linlithgow, when Scottish monarchs used Linlithgow Palace as a main residence.

It’s a square slightly stepped granite pillar on a square base.

Dedication and names. Eight for the Great War, two (below) for World War 2:-

Winchburgh is a village in West Lothian.

Its War Memorial (for Winchburgh and Niddry)  is an unusual one in that it bears a statue of a drummer boy. The statue sits atop a stone cairn on a circular plinth. It seems to have been erected in 2000 (see link above.)

Dedications. The lower plaque contains names indentified later than in the plaque above:-

This one is courtesy of my younger son. Kilchoan is in the Ardnamurchan peninsula. It’s the most westerly village in the UK.

I have never been there. He has though, and knowing my habit for photographing War Memorials kindly took this shot and sent it to me:-

This aspect shows names for the Great War. Names for the Second World War are on the right hand side of the Memorial.

Gateside is a small village in Fife. We pass through it quite often as it on the way between Son of the Rock Acres and our younger son’s house.

Its War Memorial is a Community Hall, opened in 1921 in remembrance of the Great War dead from the village:-

From car park:-

The memorial plaque is on the wall by the entrance door:-

This web page has a photograph of the names of the Gateside dead from both wars on two plaques on an internal wall.