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3 unusual facts about War memorial


Barzy-en-Thiérache

The War memorial of the commune, the work of Coulon, a marble sculptor from Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache in 1920-1921.

Marines' Memorial Club

The nonprofit Marines Memorial Association owns the large building in the Union Square neighborhood of San Francisco that houses a hotel, theater, restaurant/bar, sports club, special event facilities, library, museum, memorial, and a military history bookstore.

Thomas J. Scheff

2007 Hidden Emotions: Responses to a War Memorial Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 13(2), 1-9.


Breadsall


The church of All Saints has a very fine war memorial in the style of a Celtic cross within the churchyard, commemorating fourteen men who died during the First World War and nine men and one woman who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Heldenplatz

Erected in 1824 by Pietro Nobile according to plans designed by Luigi Cagnola, and inaugurated by Emperor Francis I of Austria in the honour of the veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, it was rebuilt as a war memorial in 1933/34 and houses a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Laurelhurst, Portland, Oregon

The center of the neighborhood, Coe Circle, contains a gilded statue of Joan of Arc, which is a World War I war memorial.

Marine Corps War Memorial

The Marine Corps War Memorial (also called the Iwo Jima Memorial) is a military memorial statue outside the walls of the Arlington National Cemetery and next to the Netherlands Carillon, in Arlington Ridge Park, Arlington, Virginia, in the United States.

Piddington and Wheeler End

The parish council administers the common land in both villages including three popular allotment sites - and is responsible for the war memorial at Wheeler End.

Royal Fusiliers

The Royal London Fusiliers Monument, a war memorial, stands on High Holborn, near Chancery Lane tube station, surmounted by the lifesize statue of a World War I soldier, and its regimental chapel is at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.


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Auckland War Memorial Museum

This exhibition is linked to the War Memorial (see below), and for example shows models of Maori pas (earth fortifications) and original Spitfire and Mitsubishi Zero aeroplanes.

Birkenhead War Memorial

This site was occupied by the Statue of John Laird, but it was agreed that the Laird statue should be moved to the west side of the square, and be replaced by the war memorial.

Bromley War Memorial

The Bromley War Memorial was unveiled on 29 October 1922, by Lord Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne, G.C.B., K.C.M.G. (1861–1929).

Chester Rural Cemetery

Two monuments in the cemetery have been documented by the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: "Sorrow" by Samuel Murray, and the Civil War Memorial, by Martin Milmore.

Commando Memorial

Unveiled in 1952 by the Queen Mother, it has become one of Scotland's best-known monuments, both as a war memorial and as a tourist attraction offering views of Ben Nevis and Aonach Mòr.

Cyril Power

Power also designed and executed a War Memorial for the Great Western Railway at Paddington, London around this time.

Elne

"Pomone" by Maillol serves as the WWII war memorial, and the studio of Terrus, where Henri Matisse and André Derain were received, saw the birth of the Fauve movement.

Elsie March

One of the first monuments on which the March family collaborated was the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers South African War Memorial.

Ernest Gillick

Figures for the reredos in Winchester College Chapel, as part of the Winchester College War Memorial (1923).

Ernest Seaman

Ernie is commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery (Panel No. 70), the memorial to the 36th Division at the Ulster Tower near Thiepval on the Somme, Felixstowe War Memorial (Suffolk), and the Scole War Memorial (Norfolk).

Farndon, Cheshire

The church contains a unique Civil War Memorial Window, and features an image thought to be that of William Lawes, the famous court musician, who was slain at the battle of Rowton Heath.

Frank D. Schroth

He was one of the originators behind the creation of the Brooklyn war memorial erected in Cadman Plaza.

Georges Vérez

The Granville in the Manche war memorial features a representation of a soldier worked in bronze by Vérez.

Glyndwr Michael

A plaque commemorating Glyndwr Michael is now also on the war memorial in Aberbargoed.

Gordon Mathison

He was evacuated to Deaconesses Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt, where he died of his wounds on 18 May 1915, and was buried in the War Memorial Cemetery, at Chatby, near Alexandria.

Irish National War Memorial Gardens

W.T. Cosgrave, president of the Irish Free State Executive Council then appointed Cecil Lavery to set up a "War Memorial Committee" to advance the memorial process.

Krsto Hegedušić

In the period 1971-73, Hegedušić worked on a large cycle of macabre frescoes for the war memorial of Tjentište.

Luc-la-Primaube

La Primaube counts also two memorials a war memorial represent a soldier of the war of 14 dead and another more recent monument with the memory of the soldiers aveyronnais dead for France in Algeria, Maroc and Tunisia or is laid out a flag of France is a tablet representing the chart of Aveyron as well as the names of aveyronnais which fell in Algeria.

Magdalen Street

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

Mailapitiya National War Memorial

The Mailapitiya National War Memorial in Mailapitiya, Kandy is dedicated to all military and police personal killed in the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Medjez-El-Bab Memorial

The Medjez-El-Bab Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial in the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery near Majaz al Bab, Tunisia.

Neubaufahrzeug

All that survives of these tanks is a small number of running gear parts, preserved in the Gudbrandsdal Krigsminnesamling (Gudbrandsdal War Memorial collection), at Kvam in Norway.

Peoria Lake

From a modern perspective, the lake runs from just south of the McClugage Bridge (US 24/US 150/War Memorial Drive) to the Murray Baker Bridge (Interstate 74).

Port Sunlight War Memorial

As early as 1916 he commissioned Goscombe John to design a war memorial, which was completed and unveiled in 1921 by two of his employees.

Prees, Shropshire

Persons associated with Prees include Captain Black, whose manor is located near the war memorial, and Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, whose doric column stands in Shrewsbury.

Raymond Boultwood Ewers

He also worked together with Bowles on the statues of King George V and of John Monash, and produced until the 1960s 22 statues of his own design for the War Memorial.

Richard Kuöhl

Kuöhl's Hamburg war memorial, erected to commemorate those of the Second Hanseatic Infantry Regiment number 76 who died in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War is typical of the ones erected during the Third Reich and is one of the few remaining.

Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet

In 1947, along with others, Bass continued the family tradition of acting as a benefactor to the Burton upon Trent area by donating a peal of five bells to All Saints Church to be installed as a war memorial.

St Giles' Fair

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

The 20 Cent Quest

After going to Canberra for their grade six camp, they included photos of the War Memorial and Parliament House and then included John Howard (Who had the letters "PM" on his head which, of course, stands for "Prime Minister"), Simon Crean and Ian Thorpe into the animation.

The World of Beachcomber

Readings from the lists of Huntingdonshire Cabmen, wherein Michael Redgrave solemnly walked to a lectern, donned his reading glasses and read the names, in alphabetical order, with great seriousness, as one might read the names of the dead at a war memorial.

Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe

Maufe's name is listed on a war memorial on the gates of his former prep school, Nevill Holt, near the village of Medbourne, Leicestershire, along with other casualties of the World Wars.

Victoria Park, Leicester

The War Memorial, a quadrifrons arch, was designed by Edwin Lutyens and built in 1923, to commemorate the dead of the First World War.

War Memorial Athletic Ground

The War Memorial Athletic Ground, often referred to as simply the War Memorial Ground, is a sports ground in the Amblecote region of Stourbridge, West Midlands, England.

War Memorial Gymnasium

War Memorial Gym was also the site of CBS's first national college basketball broadcast, a 1982 match-up between USF and the University of Georgia.

William Charles Williams

There are two memorials to him in Chepstow - a painting by Charles Dixon of the events in the Dardanelles, hanging in St Mary's Church; and a naval gun from the German submarine SM UB-91 presented by King George V, which stands in the town's main square beside the war memorial.

William Robert Colton

The Worcester Boer War Memorial, located in the grounds of Worcester Cathedral, is a bronze depiction of a hatless figure who is protected by an angel.

Wold Newton, Lincolnshire

In October 2009, the war memorial in Wold Newton was used by the constituency MP, Shona McIsaac, as evidence for the poor condition of the UK's war memorials.