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The Tower Hill Memorial commemorates men and women of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who died in both World Wars and who have no known grave. It stands on the south side of the garden of Trinity Square, London, close to The Tower of London.

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This is the war memorial in the town of Lymington. It commemorates the soldiers who dies in WW1, WW2 and Former Yugoslavia. It highlights the proportion of deaths caused by conflict especially because the current population is under 15,000 and would have been smaller at the time the war memorial was created.

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This is the war memorial in the town of Totnes. It commemorates the soldiers from Totnes that died in the first and second world wars. I think it shows just how impactful these wars were and just how high the death rates were, because even though the population is less than 10,000 and would have been even smaller at the time, there are are many names on the memorial.

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Memorial Stone to Children and Staff of Weald House killed in June 30 1944

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Weald House London County Council Residential School

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Weald House London County Council Residential School

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In memory of the evacuated children, nurses and staff of the London County Council residential school Weal House who were killed in a V1 strike on 30 June 1944.

You see memorials to fallen servicemen in most villages, towns and cities throughout the UK. I have not seen many to civilains killed in the war. This memorial is in the village of Crockham Hill, Kent, situated in a community orchard/ garden. There is also a memorial in Edenbridge Church a few miles away commemorating the same event. I think this memorial was installed in 2016 and was made of welsh slate and took a single stone mason 3 months to carve the words and names.

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I spend some time in France each year and am drawn to small villages and communes. In every village or there is a war memorial with the names off all those who were killed in the first and second world wars. Occasionally there will be additional names of those who lost their lives in other conflicts, Indo China, North Africa. These memorials are similar , a statue of a French soldier in a war like stance, with artillery shells and each corner of the memorials The Croix de Guerre is often a central feature.

Many of these villages are in rural locations with the greater number of names from the first world war, with fewer names from the second world war, reflecting that there was greater loss of life in the 1914-1918 conflict. What is also striking about these memorials is how many names are from the same family, often three or four surnames. It certainly hits home how many sons and fathers were lost from small rural communities and the impact this must of had on these communities.

Unlike some of the larger memorials established at major battle areas such as the Somme, Verdun etc village memorial are usually erected in main squares often draped with the French National flags. There are often simple memorials reflect the impact on communities and I believe they are all the more moving for that.

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Two tall slabs of Caithness stone interlinked at the top. One block bears the sculpted names of the 'Outstations'; the other has the words 'We also served', formed of letters at various angles within circles, evoking the wheels of the Bombe machine. There is a Morse Code message engraved on the back of the memorial, which translates to "My most secret source".
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
This is a memorial dedicated to the code-breakers that served at Bletchley Park during WWII.

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This record comprises all information held by IWM's War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database. This information is made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC licence.

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New Zealand National War Memorial Carillon 

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This is the dedication of the memorial on ANZAC Day (25th April) 1932 see link for more - https://www.newzealand.com/nz/feature/national-war-memorial-and-carillon/

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I chose the East Dereham War Memorial as an example of a very common sight throughout rural Britain. The list includes the names of all the men who died in WW1 and WW2 who previously lived within the area, including my Great-Uncle, David George Johnson. The memorial was first erected in 1922, and was then updated post-WW2. In total, there are 214 names listed one memorial. While not exhaustive, it is a poignant reminder of the scale of loss from a small rural town and its outlying villages.

The memorial itself is located on the central roundabout within Dereham, and so is easily seen by all who pass by.

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The Hugh Cairns Football Memorial - erected in Honour of Hugh Cairns who died during WWI it lists the 75 local footballers who died in WWI from Saskatoon. I always found it interesting how popular football was in Saskatoon and now it is largely not, perhaps because this generation and the next were so cruelly taken away.

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The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 16,859, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The headstones are aligned in 11 plots forming a generally circular pattern, set among masses of a wide variety of tropical trees and shrubbery.

The chapel, a white masonry building enriched with sculpture and mosaic, stands near the center of the cemetery. In front of it on a wide terrace are two large hemicycles. Twenty-five mosaic maps recall the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles, are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,286 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Carved in the floors are the seals of the American states and its territories. From the memorial and other points within the cemetery there are impressive views over the lowlands to Laguna de Bay and towards the distant mountains.

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To be slightly controversial, I found it slightly discombobulating that everybody felt the need to create their own memorials for the 1914-18 centenary.  I wondered why the old ones were not good enough for our our purposes and what we wanted to say.  This memorial appeared at Blackpool Illuminations during the centenary commemorations.  It is near the actual memorial - a cenotaph.  The image changed to show photographs of soldiers although I didn't manage to get a clear photograph of this there is one at www.geograph.org.uk/photo/595526 and the cenotaph can be seen at www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121900

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Up in Englefield Green, just minutes away from Royal Holloway, University of London's Campus, there is the Royal Air Force Memorial. Within, you'll find 20275 casualties being commemorated from the Second World War. I chose this memorial because I remember going there as a child. My Dad and I would search the walls, trying to find some family members, and just to remember and respect everyone else. It's for this reason that I would suggest these commemorations are built to help us find solace, and to remind us that history always plays such a prominent part in sculpting our present day lives. It is a humbling experience to see the names of local men (and women) who gave their lives for a future they wouldn't see.

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This is the "Monumento a los caidos en Malvinas" in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It represents the fallen at the Malvinas war in 1982. It has 25 plaques that countain the names of the dead soldiers, many who where very young and untrained. An interesting fact of this monument is that it has a fire always burning at the top. Even though this war ended many years ago, we dont forget those soldiers who, like i said, still had a whole life in front of them but where obligated to fight by the dictatorship.

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đây là một trong những di tích lịch sử ở nơi tôi được sinh ra và lớn lên, Tôi không nhớ nó được lập ra từ khi nào nhưng nó là một niềm tự hào của thành phố, một trong những nơi tham quan thú vị và là địa điểm đáng để ghé thăm nếu bạn có dịp lui tới.
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%83n_mi%E1%BA%BFu_Tr%E1%BA%A5n_Bi%C3%AAn

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I used to walk past this regularly the Granite works have long gone but still these names are on display.

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Monument to Woman - Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

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In honour of the 28000 woman and children that died in the British Concentration camps from 1900-1902. Emily Hobhouse remains is also buried here.

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A town massacred by the Nazis, where 190 men, 245 women and 207 children were shot or burned alive in their church on 06/10/44.

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Betchworth village memorial
A village memorial for WW1 and WW2 deaths. The WW1 plate includes two brothers who were 2nd Lieutenants as well as three brothers from another local family.
Included on the WW2 plate is a civilian lady killed when a German bomber released a spare bomb whilst returning from London.
It's both emotional and somehow satisfying that these people are remembered.

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I haven’t actually visited this, but we perhaps assume that the only casualties of war worth counting or remembering are human.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Women_of_World_War_II

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Original WW1 War Memorial with WW2 Memorial added as panels behind it. It gives only surnames and initials. I have researched the names and published what we have in terms of details/photographs on the individuals mainly from the local press on the Hoole History and Heritage Website.

https://hoolehistoryheritagesociety.miraheze.org/wiki/Wartime_Hoole

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My great great Uncle John Sanders Wheeldon is Buried here in Ramla in what was Palestine, which is where he lost his life while fighting with the Egyptian expeditionary forces in WWI. It looks quite different today but I wanted to share this Image as it is how it was when he was buried there. He is in a named grave in the British section of the site, which has many other nationalities war dead buried along side him. This site is so poignant because so many from all over the world died to defend this land from the Germans and Turkish, and while they won that war this land is still being faught over today.

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I know the story of this square , but I looked in wikipedia for more details and pictures:
"The Ottomans publicly executed seven Syrian national activists in the square on Martyrs' Day, 6 May 1916, and it is for this reason known as "Martyrs' Square". After the French took control of Syria they continued to use the square for the same purpose."

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I made a Padlet for the Canadian Vimy Memorial - click here to see it:

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I made a Padlet for the Canadian Vimy Memorial - click here to see it:

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Memorial to those who lost their lives in the sinking of the SS Tuscania.

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Memorial to those who lost their lives in the sinking of the SS Tuscania.

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On February 5th 1918 the SS Tuscania was torpedoed near the Isle of Islay. Just over 200 troops and crew perished and were washed ashore where the locals buried them. Later all but one casualty was reinterred and shipped to the US. A memorial tower was built on the cliffs over looking the sea. A beautiful site remote and very thought provoking.

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This plaque is close to my current home as well as my former high school. It has been placed in 1960 to honor of local fallen and the inscription reads as follows: "Today as well as in the future, the people from Civitanova should read and pay their pitiful respect to the glorious names of their sons who died for the country in the years of national comeback 1915-1918". The names on the plaque belong to soldiers who died from injuries, to MIA, to dead POW, and to soldiers killed by war-related diseases. The four categories are further divided by military ranks.

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I visited a memorial in the mountains in the Peloponnese of Greece. In WWII, there was an uprising against the Nazis in this village that was quelled. The occupiers took reprisals by burning the village, and shooting the entire population of men, including boys as young as 13. There is a memorial to the dead, listing all the names, and very visibly the ages, especially of the children:

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This memorial statue symbolizes the sacrifice of 44 soldiers who died during a war.

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This war memorial, was made in order to conmemorate the valour of these soldiers who fought against royalist troops in the independist epoch more than 100 years ago; so that, those names pay respect and want to remind people the names of the brave soldiers, in the case of sargeant Inocencio Chincha, or Ayacucho for the battle which helped to free Venezuela. This also stands out the republican era, the new history of the country that were liberated by Bolivar and other independist leaders.

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I had a look online to see what memorials there were as can't think of many near me and I found out that the Arc de Triomphe on Paris is a war memorial for those who dies in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. It has been carved with images and quotes, however i don't think it includes individual names, but it is at such a central area of Paris and so an everyday reminder to those who live near it what France has been through in the past.

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Etaples Military Cemetery

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Etaples military cemetary

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I've added this cemetery, because it was one of the first military cemeteries I saw (still a child) and because it struck me that we were all the way in Thailand, yet looking at graves of mostly Commonwealth-associated and Dutch military victims (who've died during work on the Burma-Siam railway). For me, it was the first realisation that the Second World War was indeed a global event.

It's also interesting to note that the US actively repatriated its dead, to honour them in their own country, whereas the other countries haven't done so.

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These 2 memorials relate to relatives of mine who served in WW1. The stone plaque lists the names of the men from Weston-on-Trent who died during (or soon after) the conflict. R W Cartlidge was my maternal great-uncle. The Roll of Honour lists the men who, as boys, attended the Union St. Congregational Church Sunday School in Hyde. The actual list is very long but includes my maternal grandfather & his 2 brothers: all survived the conflict. This list indicates those men who died & all others are assumed to have survived. The roll ends with the epithet:

LET THOSE WHOSE HEARTHS

THEY SAVED FROM SHAME

FOR MANY AND MANY AN AGE PROCLAIM

ETERNAL HONOUR TO THEIR NAME.

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Fife - I don't know what the population of Fife was a century ago but that looks like an awful lot of names.

Belgium - Interesting that you got that reaction. Possibly you wouldn't have had the same impact if you had waited 5 or 6 years.

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Names of the dead are listed on two main memorials for WW1 (1914‒1919) and WW2 (1939‒1945). Here is the much larger WW1 memorial.

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In 2015 I took my 10 year old nephew to Belgium to see the Grand Prix, on he way we stopped at a number of cemeteries and I think he was very moved by them.