Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Winning of a Military Medal on British soil

 1. Private Joseph Lister, M.M. (Border Regiment)
[Courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']
 2. Two West Cumbrian villages on the Solway Coast: 
Lowca (in distance) and Parton  (in foreground)
[Lowca was Pte. Joseph Lister's home village]
 3. Training to use a Bren gun for Anti-Aircraft defence (summer 1940)
[Courtesy of the Border Regiment & K.O.R.B.R. Museum]
4. Joseph Lister (right) honoured by the Home Guard
(Lowca and Parton platoons, Whitehaven battalion)

[Courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial, Cumbria

1. Christ Church, Waverton, Cumbria
[The main war memorial is in the church grounds]
2. Waverton & Dundraw War memorial (church grounds)
3. Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial (front)
4. Waverton and Dundraw War Memorial (sides of plinth)
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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Moor Row and Scalegill War Memorial, Cumbria

 1. Moor Row and Scalegill War Memorial, Cumbria
 2. The original war memorial dedication  (1921)
3. Names of villagers who lost their lives in WW1

4. WW2 dedication (1948) 
[Listing the villagers who died in the 1939 - 1945 war]
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Lowca Village War Memorial, Cumbria

 1. Terraced houses at Lowca village, Cumbria
2. Lowca village War Memorial, Cumbria 
 3. Names listed on Lowca village War Memorial
(World War One and World War Two)
4. Lowca War Memorial commemorative tablet (2008)
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

The sons of Newlands lost in the World Wars.

 1. Newlands Church (and former school room)
[Near Little Town, Keswick Cumbria]
 2. Stained glass window, Newlands Church 
[Depicting the Archangel St Michael]
 3. Clark family headstone, Newlands Churchyard
[Commemorating two brothers lost in WW2]
4. Headstone of Sgt. John Fisher Thwaite
[Newlands Churchyard, Cumbria]
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Sunday, March 02, 2014

The Jean Vérines Memorial, Paris

1. The Jean Vérines Memorial Tablet, Paris
Outside the Republican Guard barracks.

[12, Place de la République, Paris]

 2. The Jean Vérines Memorial (detail)
3. Statue of 'Marianne' by the Morice Brothers
Marianne is the personification of the French Republic

[Place de la République, Paris]
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