Commemoration. (1 Viewer)

[waynepoo]

With the 100 year commemorations of the start of the Great War coming up next year it got me thinking of all the Great war memorials there must be in the world. At the end of the Great War there was a great out pouring of grief and a belief that this just might be the war that ended all wars and so there was seen to be a need to commemorate the sacrifice of the servicemen and the fallen. The result being some truely magnificent memorials ranging from the great cemeteries of the western front to the humble village memorial. Here in Australia the Australian War Memorial in Canberra is one of our nations greatest places and if you ever have the chance it is a must to visit. This thread is about those memorials that commemorate the fallen of that war so post a pic of your local memorial be it one in a great city or a small town. I for one look forward to the commemorations starting next year in memory of the fallen of the Great War. I post some pics of the AWM.
Wayne.

 

[TomB]

With the 100 year commemorations of the start of the Great War coming up next year it got me thinking of all the Great war memorials there must be in the world. At the end of the Great War there was a great out pouring of grief and a belief that this just might be the war that ended all wars and so there was seen to be a need to commemorate the sacrifice of the servicemen and the fallen. The result being some truely magnificent memorials ranging from the great cemeteries of the western front to the humble village memorial. Here in Australia the Australian War Memorial in Canberra is one of our nations greatest places and if you ever have the chance it is a must to visit. This thread is about those memorials that commemorate the fallen of that war so post a pic of your local memorial be it one in a great city or a small town. I for one look forward to the commemorations starting next year in memory of the fallen of the Great War. I post some pics of the AWM.
Wayne.

nice picture's...forgotten what the place looked like......I visited the AWM in about 61/62....all I remember was "G" for George..and maybe a Me262...not too sure on the jet.....cheers TomB

 

[Rob]

Great idea for a thread Wayne, especially in the run up to next years centenary remembrance events, and thanks for posting your excellent pics, really wonderful mate. When it comes to WW1 memorials my fave is Edwin Lutyens magnificent masterpiece to the missing on the Somme. The panels on the memorial carry the names of 72,000 British and Commonwealth killed but never found on the Somme in battles July 1916 to March 1918. What I like about it is not only its design but its placement too. it towers over the battlefield where many of those missing are lying today, in the shadow of this superb memorial they may not have a grave but will NEVER be forgotten;

(both pics the work of/ copyright Carcharoth)

 

[Rob]

Ok, Wayne has got me started now!:salute:: Here is the magnificent and moving Menin Gate, Reginald Blomfield's triumphal arch which is in effect the Belgium counterpart of the above Thiepval memorial in France in that it contains the names of those British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the salient but who have no known graves, 54,896 in all. However when it was finished it became clear it was still not big enough to hold all the names of those souls missing in the mud of Flanders, as a result some 35,000 other names are on the large Tyne Cot Memorial wall (at the back of Tyne Cot cemetery) near Passchendaele . The lion atop the memorial is the lion of Britain and of Flanders.

I have attended many of the evening services that take place at Menin Gate every evening decade in and decade out and they are truly moving, the people of Ypres will never forget the sacrifice Britain and her Commonwealth made in WW1. One year some years back they read out several names of those killed in the salient at every nightly service, among them one evening was Sidney James Baynton, my wife's great great Grandfather .

' They shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away'

(PICTURE WORK OF JOHAN BAKKER)