War Memorials Outside of the UK

Discussion in 'War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research' started by von Poop, Nov 13, 2012.

  1. Owen

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    As well as the one in my previous post , I took these Sunday.
    Hietaniemi cemetery , Helsinki.
    Two of the memorials are for German war dead.
     

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  2. lionboxer

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    This is the recently erected memorial for my fathers runner killed in action at Lion Box Kanglatongbi during the Siege of Imphal. As a private memorial it is possibly unique in Manipur, India.
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  3. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    My nephew who last year visited the Niagra Falls spotted a war memorial and knowing my interest in memorials sent me the photos.
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  4. Reid

    Reid Historian & Architectural Photographer

    We have numerous memorials here in Australia - you can't go through the smallest of towns without finding one in the Main Street or park. Many are simple memorials, others are quite ornate. Most have panels commemorating those who served in all wars of the 20thC, while some have panels relating to the Boer Wars as well.

    The National Memorial in my hometown of Adelaide, South Australia was completed in 1931. A grassy area leads from the Boer War Memorial on King William Street to this memorial, and it is decorated with crosses of the fallen, and Battalion insignias, the week before Remembrance Day.

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    My local memorial, at Henley Beach, was completed in 1922 to honour those who fell in the Great War from the Henley & Grange area. It is one of the city's most beautiful Art Deco buildings and also served as the Town Hall for many years.

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    The suburb of Burnside has a very striking war memorial. It features a "Digger" reaching down to help a mate.

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    I undertook research of 70 random names from the WWI panel (121 names) at the Henley Memorial for a unit at university. I'm now in the early stages of preparing a book on these 69 men and 1 woman. Should this prove fulfilling, I'll continue to work my way through the remaining names in subsequent book/s.
     
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  5. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    You look for things and find other things. Photographs (a rarity) from a lifetime ago.

    L'Ile Rousse memorial, late 70s; une petite permission, when footing was a thing (New Balance, knacker crackers, vest, sac on yer back). Run there (jog/walk/crawl), catch the 'trinic back. Some would run there and a liquid lunch later would not make it back in time. "Problem" with a capital "P" (which meant "pas permission" for their foreseeable future, and likely a dig if they were daft enough to protest).

    The memorial has clearly had an update since my days (name plaques for starters), and now more closely honours the memory of the individuals, and is much the better for that.

    Then and now (or nearly now) ; the more recent (much more recent!) having been obtained from the informative site here: Monument à Île-Rousse | Les monuments aux morts

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.

    P.S. There is no truth in the rumour that George Michael later stole those shorts.

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  6. Owen

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    No booboo.
    Historically accurate.
    Did the Americans also use the Lee Enfield?

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  7. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Manly War Memorial NSW Australia

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  8. 51highland

    51highland Very Senior Member

    Nice to see the Greek,British and Commonwealth Flags flying after the recent Memorial service In Rethymnon, Crete. This was the first year that no British or Commonwealth visitors attended sadly.
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  9. Owen

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    Memorial to the Norwegian volunteers who served with the Finns in the Continuation War 1941-1944.
    By a lake near Rovaniemi, Lapland.
     

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  12. lionboxer

    lionboxer Member

    Some of you may have seen the awful reports coming out of Manipur recently of the tribal unrest there. One of my many friends from both sides of the community who lives just a mile from the memorial has informed me that memorial is ok. There have been gunbattles and burning of property in this area and sadly many deaths too.
    Let's hope and pray that this madness will soon cease and the differences are resolved by negotiation and not by violence. There was more than enough blood spilt on this exact spot seventy nine years ago.
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  13. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    Two Polish memorials as seen during a visit to Hohenfels, Bavaria (US Army Joint Multinational Readiness Center) and former site of Stalag 383 (amongst others) in November 1994:

    .... Dedicated to the many prisoners of German Concentration Camps on the first anniversary of the day of liberation

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    understood to have been more recently rededicated and ....

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  14. Owen

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    Finnish cemetery at Suomussalmi and a memorial on the outskirts.
     

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  15. dbf

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    USA Memorial Plaque, Malta

    In memory of the
    American Soldiers, Sailors, Marines,
    Airmen, Coast Guardsmen and Merchant
    Mariners who fought to preserve
    Malta's freedom during World War II



    Inaugurated on the 10th October 2015
    Captain Domenic A Previte
    Captain Commanding
    Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
    Chartered 1638, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    FACTA NON VERBA

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  16. dbf

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    Memorial Plaques, Malta

    Knights of St John from Aragon
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    French invasion of Malta - Wikipedia

    General Napoleon Bonaparte
    Commanding an Army of the French Republic
    lived here during seven eventful days
    in the history of Malta
    12th to 18th June 1798
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  17. dbf

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    Memorial Plaque, Malta

    No more let us falter! From Malta to Yalta! Let nobody alter!
    Winston Churchill January 1945

    The 1945 Yalta Conference brought together President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin. Prior to the conference, Roosevelt and Churchill met there in the Valletta Grand Harbour for preliminary discussions. While a number of decisions were made at Yalta tensions over various issues laid the seeds of the Cold War.


    Malta, Bush - Gorbachev
    2-3 XII 1989

    The Malta Summit of 1989 brought together US President George H.W. Bush and USSR Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and marked the end of the Cold War.

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  18. dbf

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    HMS Orlando Memorial Plaque, Malta

    In Memory
    of
    A. P. STILL Lieut. R.N.
    E. F. PRITCHARD Captain R.M.
    C. B. WOOD Surgeon R.N.
    B. STRATFORD Assist. Paymaster
    V. DA GAMA, Mid. (Portuguese Navy)
    B. W. FIELDING Midshipman
    S. B. KEMBLE Midshipman
    W. C. HADRILL Master's Assistant
    G. ARTHURS Quarter Master
    W. EASTERBROOK Private R.M.
    W. FITZSIMMONS A.B.
    J. G. WEBBER Ord.

    of HMS ORLANDO

    Drowned by a boat upsetting
    in Tunis Bay November 3rd 1864.

    "BE YE READY"

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  19. dbf

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    ORP Kujawiak [L72] Memorial Plaque, Malta

    In memory of the thirteen Polish Navy Sailors who lost their lives on 16 June 1942 when their destroyer ORP Kujawiak hit a mine and sank during a convoy to Malta, Operation Harpoon.

    May they never be forgotten



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  20. Quarterfinal

    Quarterfinal Well-Known Member

    One of these men was Sergeant Bronislaw Malinowski. He had joined 43 Squadron at Usworth, flying Hurricanes, on 25th October 1940, thereby seeing action during the last week of that Battle - doubtlessly modestly noted for having been compelled to make a forced landing west of Berwick on 31st October, following engine trouble.

    A friend recently visited war graves at Langemark, Belgium. During his sojourn, he came across this poignant plaque at the front of the church commemorating four brave residents of the nearby hamlet of Madonna, who lost their lives for aiding Bruno Malinowski. They had been arrested, no doubt brutally interrogated and had perished in German concentration camps.

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    Their sacrifices had, however, enabled Malinowski to escape and rejoin the fight. His was a remarkable story - the proverbial nine lives of a cat comes to mind - herewith carried across, courtesy of an RAF Kenley site:

    One of 14 children, Bruno Malinowski lost three brothers in the 1918-1921 war. He dropped out of Technical College in 1929 aged 17, to enlist as a minor in the Polish Army, obtaining the required consent from his older brother instead of his parents. He joined the 6th Aviation Regiment in Lviv as a private. In 1930, he began pilot training and served as a fighter pilot with the 3rd Aviation Regiment in Poznań. By 1934, he was a flying instructor at the Aviation Cadet School in Dęblin, where (future ace) Stanislaw Skalski was one of his pupils.

    At the outbreak of WW2, Malinowski was one of the instructors equipped with the outdated PZL P.7 fighter, who fought on an ad hoc basis during the September campaign. Eventually, lack of fuel forced the beleaguered pilots to abandon their aircraft. Bruno sold his flying kit to obtain the cash to escape to Romania. From there, he travelled through Yugoslavia and Greece to France, where, after training, he served as a ferry pilot from 13th May 1940. However, the fall of France, in late June, forced Bruno to flee from the advancing Germans again, this time on board a LeO 451 bomber, flying from Marignane airfield, near Marseille, to Oran with no maps in bad weather. They completed the rest of the journey to Casablanca by land.

    Bruno travelled by sea to Britain via Gibraltar, arriving in Liverpool on 13th July 1940, and was initially sent to No.3 School of Technical Training in Blackpool, before being posted to 307 Squadron on 10th September at RAF Kirton-In-Lindsey. The intention was that they would become the first Polish night fighter squadron, equipped with the Boulton Paul Defiant, but training ceased as pilots were posted away to day fighter units in need of personnel. In October, Bruno was assessed at No.1 School of Army Co-operation at Old Sarum and then sent to No.5 Operational Training Unit to convert to Hurricanes.

    On 25th October 1940, he joined 43 Squadron at Usworth - described above - with his forced landing at Chirnside, west of Berwick on 31st October.

    Four weeks later, he was transferred to 501 Squadron at RAF Kenley.

    On 8th December 1940, 11 Hurricanes from the Squadron took off at 1315hrs to patrol the Maidstone area. They landed at 1525hrs without having sighted the enemy. However, Malinowski crashed in Hurricane Mk I (R4101, SD-I) at Wye near Ashford, Kent – after for some reason passing out, but was only slightly injured.

    On 9th April 1941, Bruno joined 302 Polish Squadron and probably destroyed a Me109 on 30th December. He remained with 302 for nearly a year before being sent to No 58 Operational Training Unit at Grangemouth as an instructor for six months. During this time, Malinowski was again injured during a flight when his student Stanisław Góralski, flew into a tree. Góralski also escaped with his life.

    In November 1942, he returned to 302 Squadron, at Heston. The Spring of 1943 found Bruno flying with the Polish Flying Team, “Skalski’s Circus,” in Tunisia, where he destroyed a Me109 on 7th April, but he was back with 302 in Britain on 22nd July 1943.

    On 8th September 1943, 302 Squadron were escorting 72 B-26 Marauders to Lille. Malinowski destroyed two Me109’s, but his Spitfire V (AA928 WX-U) was damaged in combat over the French/Belgian border. He managed a forced landing at Zillebeke, near Ypres and despite a shrapnel injury to his right leg and the burns he had suffered when his oxygen tank exploded, he managed to get out of his aircraft and hide in a vineyard. With the help of local farmers and the resistance, he evaded capture and the shrapnel was surgically removed from his leg without anaesthesia, while he was being hidden in a hospital morgue in Ypres. Once his condition had improved enough for him to leave the hospital, Bruno was taken to Langemark - connect the memorial above - where he was given a false identity and then on to Liege, where his escape through France and over the Pyrenees into Spain was organised by the Comet Line.

    He eventually arrived back in Britain on 24th December 1943, returning to 302 Squadron. On 25th March 1944, he was posted to No. 1 AIrcraft Delivery Unit at Croydon, but one month later he returned to 302 Squadron for the fourth time, at Chailey. On 30th July 1944, his Spitfire was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Not having enough altitude to glide to the Allied lines, he brought the aircraft down in No-Man’s Land. Both his legs were broken during the crash and jammed in the cockpit. Canadian forces got him out and took him to a field hospital. He was transported back to England where it took him many months to recover from his injuries.

    During September, Malinowski was awarded the DFC and the Virtuti Militari (fifth class) both gazetted on 25th. A third bar to his Krzyż Walecznych (Cross of Valour) was gazetted in December, along with the French Croix de Guerre.

    On 18th March, 1945, Bruno joined 133 Wing on the continent and flew several more sorties on Mustang III’s. He was released from the Polish Air Force in 1947 as a Flight Lieutenant, having flown 113 combat sorties.

    Post-war, Bruno settled in Britain and started a car repair shop in Laud St, Croydon and later invested in a pub. He took a great interest in veteran’s affairs, but it was only in the mid-70’s that he discovered the identities of the brave Belgians above who had helped him evade capture. In May 1976, Bruno visited Langemark, Belgium and unveiled the plaque in Madonna, to remember the four Belgians who were captured and subsequently died in concentration camps, after facilitating his escape.

    Bronisliaw Malinowski died on 1st May 1982 in Roehampton Hospital. After cremation, his ashes were taken to Poland and interred at the municipal cemetery in Ksawerów. Bruno’s niece remembers her Uncle fondly, recalling that although he was perceived as a tough guy, he was very kind-hearted, helpful and hopeful.

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    which indicates a burial also local to his home in Thornton Heath and that his medals were donated to the RAF Church of St. Clement Danes.

    A humbling story, indeed.
     
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