Memorials and bikes

[Oldhippy]

Totally agree.

 

[tyred]

John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara (and the rest of the cast of The Quiet Man).

 

[Oldhippy]

Two for one on the approach road to Dover Castle not far from the edge of the White Cliffs. Didn't see any bluebirds though.

 

[Oldhippy]

Dedicated to the miners of Kent. Sadly yobs had smashed all the information panels.

 

[Oldhippy]

I knew of this memorial and have wanted a photo for ages. @Andy in Germany may know the story too.

 

[Alex321]

War memorial in Radyr.

 

[biggs682]

Stagsden war memorial

 

[Oldhippy]

Very much of an Empire mentality and interesting that the vast majority died of disease.

 

[Alex321]

War memorial outside St Athan. Although I've put this up before, it has a bit of an addition in front at the moment.

 

[tyred]

Frances Browne, poet.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Memorial in Landeck, right on the edge of the Black Forest.

It has 25 names spread almost equally between both wars. Landeck is tiny: I doubt it has more than a couple of hundred people today so losing 25 of the men in the village must have decimated the population and destroyed their workforce.

 

[Oldhippy]

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Memorial in Landeck, right on the edge of the Black Forest.

It has 25 names spread almost equally between both wars. Landeck is tiny: I doubt it has more than a couple of hundred people today so losing 25 of the men in the village must have decimated the population and destroyed their workforce.

Much more meaningful than the memorials in the UK I think. It seems more about the individuals concerned than the 'glories' of dying in a war.

 

[sevenfourate]

Lowestoft Naval Memorial:​

 

[Alex321]

Much more meaningful than the memorials in the UK I think. It seems more about the individuals concerned than the 'glories' of dying in a war.

Thy vary a lot in the UK, and some are more like that one.

 

[Andy in Germany]

A rather curiois memorial alongside a road north of Freiburg, to one Joseph Egle, born in 1873 and killed here in 1897. The memorial dates from 1995 and was placed "to thank the German Red Cross (which often run the ambulance service) for their lifesaving work in the area".