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This
site is dedicated to those men and women who fell fighting
for their country. Recorded here are various war memorials
within a variety of counties, it is fully intended to complete
as many war memorials in the United Kingdom as possible. The
counties and the war memorials completed for each are listed
on a separate page.
Photographs have been taken of the majority of the memorials,
details of the men included and their photographs where possible.
All counties are based on the pre-1974 reorganisation of the
political divisions in the United Kingdom. The main sections
have a menu at the top of the page of sections
that are available, these are on drop down lists. A site
map has been provided as well.
The
war memorials and rolls of honour cover a variety of Regiments,
airfields and
air bases as well as the memorials and cemeteries in the countries
overseas where the men fell.
Much
of the information has been found using the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission site. To supplement this information
the Soldiers Died in the Great War CD's and the Roll of Honour
books all available from Naval
& Military Press were also used. Other resources
include the London Gazette, Local Newspapers, facts from family
member's and various other pieces of information from old
books and magazines.
All
the information here has been supplied by volunteers. If you
have any information about the various items appearing here
or wish to supply information then please use the feedback
form. We will publish searchable databases and war memorials
plus photographs accreditation being to those who own or have
supplied the various content.
For
those of you wanting to visit the places where these men and
women are buried we have compiled a page devoted to Tour
companies that specialise in this area.
Aims
of this web site
This website:
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promotes historical knowledge as a tool for peace and understanding
between peoples and nations.
- does
not seek to glorify the British Empire or any form of imperialism.
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does not seek to glorify war, or advocate war as a solution
to disputes.
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uses crown icons and other royal/imperial symbols as an
historical device, and not a political statement.
- endeavours
to be as accurate as possible but sometimes is not; any
entries that are erroneous will be changed in the fullness
of time given notification
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DONATIONS This
site is maintained solely by volunteers and is funded by them as private
individuals. This includes the purchase of photographs, books, rolls of
honour plus the running costs of the site. We have always intended to
make this site free to all. If you have gained from this site then please
consider making a donation through PayPal by clicking on the donation
button. Thank you. If
you would like to donate but not on-line then cheques can be made payable
to, and sent to: Martin
Edwards
88 Laurel Walk
Kempston
Bedford
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While
many many have been collated into the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission web
site there are an estimated 45,000 names are
missing from the Commission registers. The Campaign
for War Grave Commemorations (www.cwgc.co.uk)
aim is to have uncommemorated servicemen willingly
accepted by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
regardless of who the informant might be and
without cost to private citizens.
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Casualty
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Lists Spreadsheets hosted on behalf of Diane (Bardess) - compiled
from casualty lists uploaded to the Great War Forum. Please
click the following link to download the spreadsheet
(10.1Mb) - Casualty Lists. The spreadsheet was last updated
on Tuesday 28th July 2009. Hyperlinks are provided to the
National Archives' Medal Index Cards and, where appropriate,
the CWGC 'Debt of Honour Register'. Great work, Diane! |

 
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Query
Policy
Due
to the lask of resource it is not always possible for us to
reply to emails, especially research of individuals. We are
not a full-time organisation with staff, we are amateurs trying
to collate as much information as we can. As such we research
memorials as and when we can. The volume of emails received
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Occasionally
people are looking, for a variety of reasons, for various
families of those who died in conflict. The latest requests
are held on the Information Requests
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Want
to help
We
are always looking for volunteers to help. All information
included on the site is accredited to the person who worked
on it. You need help with transciptions, research and photographs.
Contact
the site owner, Martin
Edwards, if you are interested in helping. There is a
Word
Template available for those who wish to you use it to
transcribe. If you left click on the link (not right) it will
load into Word and you can save it into your templates folder
as a base for new transcription documents.
Currently
we have a huge backlog of around 10,000+ emails to get through
containing new memorials and amendments. As we are volunteers
we can only devote so much of our spare time to this so please
bear with us. Although we do try to reply to emails the volume
is such that we cannot guarantee a response, sorry but there
is a huge amount of emails coming in and it is just not possible.
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This page
last updated
24 November, 2011
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