| Throughout
Hertfordshire there are various memorials
and rolls of honour dedicated to those men and women
who fell in various wars. These memorials and rolls cover
many centuries in some cases, most World War One and Two.
During
any conflict there are certain acts of bravery or defiance
that are noticeable above others. For these acts citations
and medals have been awarded.
If
anybody has information for those of the Second World War,
Boer War, or the like similar to those supplied for the
First World War then I would gladly post these as well.
The
other source of information is photographs andd there are
several that have been supplied without details - do
you know who they are? |
For
those of you with an interest in the World War 1 there is
The
British Army in the Great War, World
War 1 - Trenches on the Web, the Regimental
Warpath and the Cambridgeshire branch of the Western
Front Association. Cliff Brown, Chairman of the
Cambridgeshire branch of the WFA, Dave Edwards, Lynda Smith
and Phil Cume have generously added detail to the names
recorded for many of these memorials giving details of those
who died. These names are all taken from the main local
war memorial (i.e. the town or village memorial). Some extra
names are added on the end when they crop up elsewhere in
the town/village, such as someone buried in the cemetery.
For
further reading when researching World War 1 relatives then
there is a book published by the Federation of Family History
Societies for family Historians entitled "World
War I Army Ancestry - Third Edition" by Norman Holding
ISBN 1 86006 056 2.
Please
Note: Every attempt has been made to transcribe this information
accurately but there are occasions that the information
supplied is incorrect or errors occur during transcription.
We do not wish to cause offence to any families of the men
detailed here and will change the relevant information when
informed.
Also
note that places detailed on these memorials may appear
in the wrong county. This information has been transcribed
from the records given and, as the men were parochial, the
information supplied at enlistment was the view of the men
and the county they thought they resided in.
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 Throughout
Hertfordshireshire there are memorials to be found
that reveal the men and women who have served and
fallen in various wars or of the various military
units that have served from within the bounds of this
area. These pages have been dedicated to recording
these memorials.
Tribute
must be paid to the Commonwealth
War Graves Commission from whose records it has
been possible to detail much of this information.
Fairly
uniquely there are ten street memorials in the Abbey
parish of St. Albans that commemorate the dead of
the First World War who lived in those streets. Wall
plaques record the names of more than 100 men, including
nine pairs of brothers, who from the small group of
homes that surrounded the Abbey left to fight for
King and Country and never returned. These are documented
in the book "THE STREET MEMORIALS OF ST ALBANS
ABBEY PARISH" by Alice Goodman published by St
Alban's and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological
Society 1987 ISBN 0 901194 08 5 |
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|  These
pages are available for transcripts of these memorials
and rolls of honour. If you have a transcription of,
or you are willing to transcribe, a Hertfordshire
memorial or roll of honour for these pages then please
contact me, the email address is below.
Current
acknowledgements for assistance with these pages must
go to Lynda Smith, Christopher Comber, Carolynn Langley,
Claire Langley, Rosalyn Knight, David Goble, Alan
Cooper, Gordon Gliby, Robert Dye, Janet Graves, Andy
Pay, Martin Hagger, Vernon Masterman and
many others - thank you all.
Thank
you,
Martin
Edwards
email:rollofhonour@fastfreenet.com |
The
various memorials
and cemeteries maintained by the War Graves Commission
for the Western Front are described and pictured on the
Internet. There is also another site that describes
these memorials. Details of Kranji War Cemetery and
Taiping can be found on MyFarEast
website.
To
gain an overview of all the towns and parishes covered,
and hopefully to be covered, by this site there is an alphabetical
index.
Some
of the cap badges
are laid out, on a separate page. |
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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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IN
MEMORY OF
LYNDA SMITH
WHO PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 2007
A PROLIFIC CONTRIBUTOR
TO THIS SITE
SHE WILL BE SORELY MISSED
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HERTFORDSHIRE
INFORMATION
Chris
Reynolds has some interesting details on his web site
that may be of use to those looking at military history
for Hertfordshire.
In
1999, The Dacorum Heritage Trust mounted a major exhibition
focusing on local soldiers who served in the First World
War. In preparation for the exhibition, they gathered
material (including photographs) from local families
whose relatives had served during the conflict. They
also began to compile a database of all soldiers in
the Borough whose names appear on the war memorials.
They used sources such as the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission, local newspapers and family testimony. The
results of their toils can be found on-line.
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NEWS
AND REVIEWS
This
section contains various news reports and cuttings, old and
new, with reference to the memorials in and around Huntingdonshire.
To view the section please click
here.
Links
to other sites that you may find useful.
| Haileybury
College, Hertfordshire
The
Haileybury College website :- www.haileybury.herts.sch.uk/archives/roll/index.html
has a section entitled roll-of-honour containing
details of 1400+ old boys lost in the various wars and
campaigns from the 1st Afghan war to the Indonesian
Confrontation including 17 Victoria Crosses (VC) &
3 George Crosses (GC). |
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During
World War 1 many places were utilised for the war effort,
here the council schoool at Royston is turned into a Soldiers'
Hospital.
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information about soldiers who fell, were awarded medals and
more is to be found in old copies of the London
Gazette. Here is a brief resume:
The
London Gazette, first published in 1665, is the oldest,
continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom and
probably the world. The London Gazette and its sister publications,
the Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, have a unique position
in British publishing. They are official newspapers of the
Crown. The London Gazette contains a wide range of office
notices including State, Parliamentary and Ecclesiastical
notices, Transport and Planning notices as well as Corporate
and Personal Insolvency notices to name a few. In addition,
a number of Supplements are published covering Honours and
Awards, Premium Bonds, Armed Forces Promotions and Re-gradings,
Companies' information, etc. and a Quarterly Index.
In
the 17th century, it was believed that National efficiency
depended on the intelligence received by the Crown and that
the reckless publishing of news might endanger it. An embargo
on the printing of news other than reports of events abroad,
natural disasters, Royal declarations and sensational crime
continued until 1640. This had the effect of delaying the
development of the press in the UK. Censorship was introduced
in 1643, followed by licensing of news publications. The
Gazette came about because of two momentous events: the
Great Plague and the decision of King Charles II to remove
his court - effectively the government of the time - to
Oxford. The London Gazette started life as the Oxford Gazette
and after a few months changed to its current title.
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Last updated:
10 April, 2008
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