Can you photograph your local war memorial? (UK)

St. Mildred's in Tenterden.

 

Old Sarum Airfield, Nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire

Around the side of the GoSkyDive building:-














...and on the back of the Guyatt's scrap-metal yard...


...which I hope is genuine.

 

Stepney war memorial London.

 

Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire:


Eight WW2 fatalities are named on the lower tablet on the South side:
Eric S Brocklesby
Frank Bullivent
Frank Headland
Ronald W Leeke
Walter J Precious
Walter E Rook
Harold G Walker
James R Wright

Previously:

although the attached BBC feature was somewhat blurred. Whichever, the local 'Eagles' tablet is now within the Memorial Garden:


outside of which is a storyboard commemorating the Town's station:

which I hope viewers can enlarge, as desired. Whilst mainly aviation centric, there is a small section on its time as Rapier Barracks and home of Air Defence gunners.

 

Ringshall Hertfordshire

 

I unexpectedly came across this memorial marking the tragic death of Flight Sergeant Roy J Rogers RAAF today:


It is located in the outskirts of Brigg, Lincolnshire. Flt Sgt Rogers has been noted before, by Member

and I would have mentioned it at:
Can anyone help please?
had I known before.

In a subsequent report the pilot (Flt Lt MC Nottle RAAF) said: " I gave the order to prepare to abandon and all the crew acknowledged. The fumes and smoke became intense in a matter of seconds and I ordered the crew to abandon, but received no acknowledgement. I saw Flt Sgt Sloan and Plt Offr Johnson enter the bomb aimer's compartment. As the smoke and flames then became intense I was forced to bale out through the pilot's window"

Flt Sgt Sloan (Flight Engineer) also reported: "Black smoke and fumes started to come out of the bomb bay. The pilot ordered prepare to abandon and acknowledged. I adjusted my chute and went to step into the bomb bay compartment. The bomb aimer had already jettisoned the emergency exit hatch and jumped on seeing me. I immediately followed. And as I left the Navigator was immediately behind me. The visibility was almost nil due to smoke and fumes. I saw three chutes on the way down."

Interestingly,
1945 Lincolnshire aviation Incident Logs. - BCAR.org.uk
list Plt Offr CE Johnson, WO KB Quinn and Flt Sgt RJ Rogers as being the last RAAF deaths in Bomber Command during WW2 - although the location given where he came to grief would benefit from adjustment. The former brickwork ponds have been redeveloped, but the plaque is affixed to the main building at:
https://www.harrisonshideaway.co.uk/

Afternote: photo passed to 460 Sqn RAAF for their newsletter.

 

Wingerworth Derbyshire

 

Peak Dale, Derbyshire
Peak Dale chapel, was the original home for these tablets, but since its closure, they are stored, temporary in St. Margaret's Church, Wormhill.

 

Nettleden and Frithsden Hertfordshire

 

Anne Frank Memorial Tree
Highbury Fields
London

Plaque reads
This tree was cultivated from the original white horse chestnut tree that Anne Frank could see from the attic window of the secret annexe, where she and seven others, spent more than two years in hiding from the Nazis at 263 Prinsengracht, Amsterdam during the Second World War. It stood in the garden of a house on the Keizersgracht and was one of the oldest chestnut trees in Amsterdam, at over one hundred and seventy years old, until it finally succumbed to disease and fell down in 2010.

The two of us looked out at the blue sky, the bare chestnut tree glistening with dew, the seagulls and other birds glinting with silver as they swooped through the air, and we were so moved and entranced that we couldn't speak."

- Anne Frank's diary, 23rd February 1944

This tree was donated by the Business Design Centre to the young people of Islington as a symbol of hope that they will live in a society of mutual understanding and respect for diversity.

 

Boer War Memorial
Highbury Corner London

 

Cleveleys, Lancashire

 

The WW2 aspect of the memorial in Messingham, North Lincolnshire:


Chief Motor Mechanic Ronald Amos Rawson Barley DSM was serving with HMMTB 710 when he perished on April 10th 1945 in the Adriatic. MTB 710 was a Fairmile ‘D’ Dogboat and struck an acoustic mine. An account of the sinking from one of her surviving crew members, George Chandler MID, is taken from an interview he gave to BBC Southwest, as part of their filming of the Coastal Forces Veterans Association decommissioning service in 2007 and is at:
Davies, Frank : Flintshire war memorials

Serjeant Henry Ernest Carpendale fell in Tunisia in April 1943, serving with 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment.

Leading Aircraftman Richard David Hiles RAF died in Canada on 17 November 1941.

Private Robert Maw died in Germany on 15 April 1945, serving with 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders.

Signalman Leonard Millson died on 17 April 1942 serving with 10 Indian Division in Egypt.

Private Cyril Norton of 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) died in the UK on 11 April 1945.

Flight Sergeant Brian R Pool died serving with 358 Squadron in Thailand on 29 May 1945. A Special Operations Liberator unit, the Squadron was based at RAF Jessore, Bengal, British India and during the period dropped agents and supplies to resistance groups in Japanese-held territory.

Leading Stoker Allen(sic) Roy Raby died on 12 September 1942, another of over 1,650 plus casualties, after the sinking of HMS Victory III (RMS Laconia) - a feature of several threads on the Forum.

Private Charles Wilmot Royal Army Service Corps died on 27 December 1941.

 

Further to:

a new (12 September 2024) monument (about 100 metres to the West) commemorating the crew of 1662 Heavy Conversion Unit Halifax BB316 that crashed on 4 May 1944:


F/O R.V.SPENCER 144457 (24)
F/O S.J.CHAPLIN 152933 (23)
F/S J.N.ROBERTSON 1577452 (20)
SGT H.J.STREET 1446264 (22)
SGT S.BIRD 1494307 (20)
SGT W.M.HARVEY 1582500 (19)
SGT L.G.GARROD 1725410 (survivor - detail on storyboard)

Also connect CL1 post:
Remembering Today 4/5/44 Sergeant:Harold John Street,1446864,Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
with additional info from Member alieneyes on cause attribution.

 

Civilian WW2 Wapping London

 

Tupton, Derbyshire
Grounds of St. John's Church.

 

Thornton-in-Lonsdale, North Yorkshire

 

Clay Cross, Derbyshire
Grounds of St Bartholomew's Church

 

Ratcliff War Memorial
St James Garden
Tower Hamlets
London

 

Shadwell London

Poplar & Stepney Rifles

Site of the Drill Hall (1860 - 1907) of 26th Middlesex Volunteers

Later part of 17th

Battalion London Regiment (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)

of whom 1,022 soldiers were killed in the Great War 1914 - 1918