We had parked opposite Glastonbury’s War Memorial, a Celtic type cross surmounting a scrolled column,which stands by the main street.

Dedications and names:-

Great War Names Could-Mullins:-

Great War Names Parkes-Wootton:-

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:-

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 the  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:-

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:-

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:-

The hotel we stayed at in Bradford-on-Avon was right beside the Kennet and Avon Canal:-

Canal lock at Bradford-on-Avon:-

In operation:-

This was once the lockkeeper’s house:-

We took a stroll along the canal and came upon a World War 2 pillbox:-

This small blue plaque on the pillbox states it was once part of a stop line which in case of invasion was intended to prevent German troops crossing the canal:-

Boer War Memorial Dedication:-

Name plaques:-

Memorial flags including the Chindits:-

World War 2 Roll of Honour, Staffordshire Regiment:-

Memorial, to Burmah Campaign, 1853:-

Sutlej Campaign, 1815/1816, Memorial:-

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:-

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:-

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:-