Military and Civilian Memorials - World War One

"For your tomorrow we gave our today"

Notes:
Some information gleaned from copyright material of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Some information courtesy An Unfortunate Region.

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Belgium
Ploegsteert     Tyne Cot     Ypres, Menin Gate


France
Cambrai     La Ferte-sous-Jouarre     Le Touret
Pozieres     Thiepval     Vis-en-Artois


New Zealand
Geraldine     Peel Forest     St. Stephen's Church


Northern Ireland
Ballycastle      Ballymoney      Coleraine
Lisburn     Londonderry     Portadown


Turkey
Haida Pasha     Helles

































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PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

Location:
In Berks Cemetery Extension, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.

The Memorial commemorates 11368 men who have no known grave. They fought throughout the War beside French troops and died, in France or Belgium, when the frontier was of little interest in this area in which trench warfare lasted longest.

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant Arthur McLaughlin
Private Cecil Charles Hunter Barr (As alias Charles Russell)
Private George Mark
Private Andrew Pepper
Rifleman John Smith
Private William Fairburn Timbey
















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TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Location:
At the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

The Memorial is faced with panels of Portland stone on which are carved nearly 35,000 names of those who have no known grave.

The following inscription is carved on the frieze above the panels which contain the names:
"1914 - Here are recorded the names of Officers and Men of the Armies of the British Empire who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the Fortune of War denied the known and Honoured Burial given to their Comrades in Death - 1918"

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Second Lieutenant Robert James McCullough
Second Lieutenant Francis John Elliot McFarland MC
Second Lieutenant Wilfrd Laurance Reavie
Lance Corporal Thomas Stevenson
Private Joseph Bowden
Rifleman John Connell
Private Frederick St.G. Cooke
Private Allen Davey
Private William H.Dundas
Rifleman Neason Henry Hale
Rifleman Alexander Johnston MM
Rifleman Armour John Knox
Private William Leinster
Rifleman Cyril Aubrey Morrison
Private Henry Mortimer
Private Robert McConnell
Private Robert Park
Rifleman Ernest Augustus Stevenson
















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YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL
Location:
East of Ieper, on the road to Menin, West-Vlaanderen, Belg ium.

The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917.

Among the over 54,000 names recorded on this Memorial:
Corporal William Hanna Adams
Private James Talbot




















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CAMBRAI MEMORIAL

Location:
Near the small village of Louverval, Nord, France.

At the entrance to the Memorial is the following inscription in English and French:
"To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 Officers and Men of the Forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai between the 20th November and the 3rd December 1917, whose names are here recorded but to whom the Fortunes of War denied the known and Honoured Burial given to their Comrades in Death."

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Captain David McCausland
Lance Corporal Hugh Flanagan
Lance Corporal Fred Scanlon
Private Alexander Martin
Private William Petty
Private James Sleator
















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LA FERTE-sous-JOUARRE

Location:
In the small town after which it is named, Seine-et-Marne, France.

The Memorial Register is kept at the Town Hall. The La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates nearly 4,000 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died in August, September and the early part of October 1914 and who have no known grave.

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Private William Moore
Private Henry St.George Layard Scott


















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LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Location:
At the east end of the Le Touret Military Cemetery on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres road, Pas de Calais., France.

Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.

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Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant Samuel Barbour Combe















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POZIERES MEMORIAL

Location:
Near the village after which it is named, north-east of Albert, Somme, France.

Among the over 14,000 names recorded on this Memorial are:
Second Lieutenant Robert Victor Lyons
Second Lieutenant Archibald Moore
Rifleman Cecil Charles Hunter Barr (Alias Charles Russell)
Private William Biggart
Private Thomas Cartmill
Private Arthur Crawford
Private John Forbes
Rifleman Thomas Johnston
Private Thomas Lyons
Private John Moon
Private Thomas Sittlington












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THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Location:
Off the main Bapaume to Albert road, Somme, France.

On the Memorial are the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave.

Among the the over 72,000 names recorded on this Memorial:
Private Robert Heathwood















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VIS-en-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

Location:
Within the grounds of Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Pas de Ca;ais, France.

The Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave.

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Private John McVea
Private John Roberts















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GERALDINE WAR MEMORIAL

Location:
In Geraldine, South Canterbury, New Zealand.

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant James Robert Dennistoun































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PEEL FOREST WAR MEMORIAL

Location:
Near Peel Forest Hall, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant James Robert Dennistoun







































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SAINT STEPHEN'S CHURCH

Location:
On Peel Forest Road, north of Geraldine, South Canterbury, New Zealand.

A portrait of Lieutenant James Robert Dennistoun is on a large stained-glass window.
















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BALLYCASTLE WAR MEMORIAL, Northern Ireland

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant James Kenneth Gregor Greer MC




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BALLYMONEY WAR MEMORIAl, Northern Ireland

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant James Kenneth Gregor Greer MC
Private William Biggart Private Alexander Blair
Private George Killough
Private William McKee Murphy
Private William Thompson



































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COLERAINE WAR MEMORIAL, Northern Irelnd

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Corporal William Hanna Adams
Private Thomas Wright




























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LISBURN WAR MEMORIAL, Northern Ireland

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Private Robert John Hull






























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Londonderry Cemetery Memorial, Northern Ireland

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Private Victor Nelson Bell































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PORTADOWN MEMORIAL, Northern Ireland

Location: In the town centre.

Among the names recorded on this Memorial:
Trooper Albert Milton Boyle







































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HAIDAR PASHA MEMORIAL, Turkey

Location:
Within the Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Instanbul.

Among the 203 names recorded on this Memorial:
Lieutenant Robert Campbell Russell
































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HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey

Location:
On the tip of the Gallipoli Penisula.

Among the more than 21,000 names recorded on this Memorial:
Private George Gibson

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