Every teeny village that you go through in the UK has its own War Memorial, and sometimes there are memorials in the middle of nowhere, commemorating the men who lived in far flung rural areas with no community focal point. There are lots of different designs to the memorials, and if it’s possible to stop we always do so that we can read the names, and Jack takes a photo of them. Here are just a few he has taken over the years.
Lincoln
St Andrews
Newmains
I think this really is the Forgotten War here in the US, sadly. So much attention on the Second, and then on Vietnam. I don’t remember learning much in school, even in college.
Lisa,
Apparently so many British men were killed over the four years that it meant that only 1 in 10 young women got married, it changed society completely. Our Poppy Day commemorations are really for all war dead though.
You guys do have such beautiful war memorials over there. You put us to shame. The difference I think is it was fought on your soil or so close to home. We seem so removed from everything. I really love the one from Newmains.
Peggy,
World War 1 was much longer for us though as the US only came into it in the last year, just as well they did as our surviving men were exhausted by then, but not as exhausted as the Germans – says Jack! The Newmains memorial is very poignant I think.