Blogs about: Unusual Memorials
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The Elliot Brothers
By office volunteer, Annette Gaykema. Another remote memorial is that of the Elliot brothers, William and Alistair, which is located by the shores of Loch Glencoul in Sutherland, Northern Scotland. Si… more →
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The Elliot Brothers
ukniwm3 wrote 1 month ago: By office volunteer, Annette Gaykema. Another remote memorial is that of the Elliot brothers, Willia … more →
Remote Peakland Crash Site Remembered
ukniwm2 wrote 2 months ago: This article was submitted by Derbyshire Volunteer Co-ordinator, Roy Branson Many aeroplanes crashed … more →
Ross District war memorial and the Romans
ukniwm2 wrote 4 months ago: This article was submitted by UKNIWM volunteer fieldworker Gordon Amand You may wonder what have Rom … more →
Children's Building Bricks
ukniwm1 wrote 1 year ago: What, you may ask, do children’s building bricks have to do with war memorials? Well, read on … more →
Shakespeare and the Battle of Shrewsbury
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday was the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, so I’ve found a topical war memori … more →
The useful and the unusual
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: ‘Useful’ war memorials are certainly less common than the purely symbolic form, but plen … more →
A child's Christmas treat
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: This is a fascinating photograph I discovered in our collection. It shows a temporary memorial, con … more →
The mysterious Taffy
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Not all war memorials feature the names of those who served or died but, if they do, the very least … more →
Cats in the Second World War
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ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: We have previously written about Simon, the ship’s cat on board HMS Amethyst, and the only fel … more →
What are street shrines?
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Gordon, one of our fieldworkers, wrote in with the following question. One of our local WW1 memorial … more →
'I am the enemy you killed, my friend...'
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Today’s blog post was written by one of our volunteers, Richard. ‘I am the enemy you kil … more →
What happened to the Downham oak trees?
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes we have very little, or out of date information with which to record a war memorial. Rece … more →
Call for memorial to soldier bear
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: There are calls for a memorial to Voytek, an Iranian bear that fought for the Polish against the Ger … more →
A different kind of memorial
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ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: Today’s post is really outside of the remit of the UKNIWM. It’s about an American servi … more →
Service for animal war heroes
ukniwm wrote 1 year ago: An unusual memorial service took place yesterday at the PDSA animal cemetery in Ilford, Essex, which … more →
Myths about Thankful Villages
ukniwm wrote 2 years ago: The Daily Telegraph recently printed an article on ‘Thankful Villages’. This was the na … more →
War memorial bus shelter becomes listed building
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ukniwm wrote 2 years ago: A rustic timber bus shelter, built to commemorate the dead of the Second World War has just been awa … more →
Violence in the Garden of England
ukniwm wrote 2 years ago: Some of the memorials in the database come under the heading of non-combat deaths; those who died wh … more →
More about memorial tanks
ukniwm wrote 2 years ago: Following up on the piece we did about war memorial tanks earlier in the month, one of our volunteer … more →
