Memorials and bikes

[FrothNinja]

It's not new and it has nothing to indicate what it is. A cross?? A memorial to confusion??
Crawford, Lanarks

 

[Oldhippy]

Allied aircrew memorial at Manston Spitfire and Hurricane museum.

 

[Willd]

Another aircrew one

 

[Oldhippy]

Another aircrew one
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Just both those aircrew memorials make me think the things we all complain about so bitterly today pale in to insignificance when you consider what people did for a job don't you think?

 

[FrothNinja]

Just both those aircrew memorials make me think the things we all complain about so bitterly today pale in to insignificance when you consider what people did for a job don't you think?

Poor sods, most of them didn't do it for a job. They left their jobs to defend their countries.

 

[Jenkins]

A very new one in Ipswich marina (no bike for the 2nd pic as I didn't want to disturb the display on the front of the memorial)

 

[Jenkins]

The 96th Bombardment Group memorial at Snetterton circuit

 

[tyred]

A memorial to someone who died on the Titanic.

 

[Oldhippy]

 

[FrothNinja]

Berwick, Shrops

 

[Andy in Germany]

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That dedication is incredibly sad; those 12 men were used as cannon fodder and propaganda to get more men to sign up for the meat grinder.

 

[Oldhippy]

That dedication is incredibly sad; those 12 men were used as cannon fodder and propaganda to get more men to sign up for the meat grinder.

I was in the middle of nowhere and noticed it sticking out over a hedge. Very sad and overgrown around the base. I started to tidy up but realised I would be there for ages. It was very poignant indeed.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I was in the middle of nowhere and noticed it sticking out over a hedge. Very sad and overgrown around the base. I started to tidy up but realised I would be there for ages. It was very poignant indeed.

It's the way this was presented as a Jolly Good Thing, instead of a third of the male population, and probably all of the men of working age gone; there's no recognition of how this would affect them, their families or the village as a whole, just how spiffing it was that these chaps were willing to die for King and Country.

 

[Oldhippy]

It's the way this was presented as a Jolly Good Thing, instead of a third of the male population, and probably all of the men of working age gone; there's no recognition of how this would affect them, their families or the village as a whole, just how spiffing it was that these chaps were willing to die for King and Country.

Mental isn't it. The mentality hasn't changed much either in the intervening years except we aren't as vocal about 'our boys' or anyone else's boys for that matter.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Mental isn't it. The mentality hasn't changed much either in the intervening years except we aren't as vocal about 'our boys' or anyone else's boys for that matter.

I think that's why I prefer German war memorials, for obvious reasons they tend not to be very jingoistic. Like this one near the French border in Breisach am Rhein: