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General Category => General => Topic started by: Patrick Anderson on November 06, 2005, 07:54:53 PM

Title: Inventory of war memorials UK
Post by: Patrick Anderson on November 06, 2005, 07:54:53 PM
Readers of this site may be interested to know that the Inventory of War Memorials at the Imperial War Museum in London has a new web site relating to the War Memorials of the UK and everyone can log into the site and find details of the various war memorials in a certain town , village , hamlet etc . The memorials can be outside or inside buildings such as windows etc and includes Cross of Sacrifice at war graves in a graveyard or cemetery in the UK . The inventory are wishing details to update the UK index such as sculptor used for the memorial , dimensions , unveiling date and who by , details of the memorial itself, also details of the names etc listed on the memorials and details of the wording on the memorial as well and any postcards and photos too would be useful for their inventory


The index relates to War Memorials going back centuries including Bannockburn in 1314 , Jacobite , Boer War , Great War , etc

the index can be found at http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/