Great War Centenary
Contents
- Introduction
- History
- Military
- Military Depots
- Military Headquarters
- Coastal Defences
- Anti-aircraft Batteries
- Pillboxes
- Drill Halls
- Training Areas and Camps
- Rifle Ranges
- Prisoner of War Camps
- Internment Camps
- Sound Mirrors
- Airship Bases
- Airfields
- Seaplane Bases
- Naval Establishments
- Naval Vessels
- Caring for Casualties
- Military Hospitals
- Royal Naval Hospitals
- Army Hospitals
- Royal Air Force Hospitals
- Territorial Force Hospitals
- Southern General Hospital
- Northern General Hospital
- Eastern General Hospital
- Western General Hospital
- Scottish General Hospitals
- London General Hospitals
- Canadian Convalescent Hospital
- New Zealand General Hospital No 1
- War Hospitals
- Voluntary Support
- Auxiliary Hospitals
- War Hospital Supply Depots
- Supporting the War Effort
- Manufacturing
- Munitions
- National Munitions Factories
- Airships and Aircraft
- Shipyards
- Mining
- North Wales Manganese Mines
- State Management Scheme
- Hostilities and incidents on British soil
- Aerial
- Naval
- Army
- Easter Rising
- Memorials
- National Memorials
- National Memorial Arboretum
- Naval Memorials
- Regimental and Battalion Memorials
- Divisional Memorials
- War Memorials
- Battlefield Crosses
- Animals in War
- Drinking Troughs
- Memorial Benches
- Poppies
- Ulster Murals
- Memorial Hospitals
- Memorial Halls
- Memorial Parks and Gardens
- Memorial Clock Towers
- Memorial Arches
- Memorial Windows
- Thankful Villages
- Statues
- Centenary Memorials
- War Cemeteries
- Centenary Commemorations
- Events
- Reconstructions
- Commemorative Installations
- Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
- Weeping Window
- Wave
- Miscellany
- Tanks, trains, guns, shells and mines
- Songs and Entertainment
- Private air raid shelter
- Belgian Refugees
- Refugee billets
- Token of thanks and memorials
- Other
- War Poetry and Authors
- Hedd Wyn
- Francis Ledwidge
- Wilfred Owen
- Rupert Brooke
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Charles Sorley
- Edward Thomas
- Laurence Binyon
- JRR Tolkien
- Links
Memorials
National Memorials
National Memorial Arboretum
Naval Memorials
Identical Portland Stone memorials were unveiled in 1924 at the three main Royal Navy ports.
H.M Ships Aboukir, Hogue & Cressy memorial - Chatham Historic Dockyard. All three Chatham Division cruisers were sunk on 24 September 1914 with loss of 1459 men.
RNVR memorial, Crystal Palace. 125000 officers and men trained at the training depot, HMS Victory VI, during the Great War.
The Dover Patrol operated in the Southern North Sea, Straits of Dover and Eastern English Channel. There are matching monuments in Calais and New York.Regimental and Battalion Memorials
Sherwood Foresters
Crich Stand4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Hexham15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Leeds Pals)
Breary BanksCameronian Highlanders
Kelvingrove Park5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders(Buchan and Formartin)
PeterheadEast Yorkshire Waggoners
Sledmere8th London Howitzer Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Plumstead Common, LondonCamel Corps
LondonRoyal Artillery
LondonDivisional Memorials
2nd Division
8th Division
29th Division
51st Highland Division
Guards Division
CavalryWar Memorials
Suffolk
Article recording the memorials in Suffolk parishes
Link
Norfolk
Recording the memorials in 740 Norfolk parishes.
Link
Carnforth, Lancashire
Unusually the memorial also remembers the substantial number of servicemen who died from their injuries in the post-war period 1918-24.
Great Gable
Memorial to the members of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club fallen in the European War. The surrounding fells were purchased as an everlasting memorial.
Indian Memorials
South Gate, Brighton Pavilion
The Chattri, Brighton
Peace Memorial Garden, WokingAllies
Street Memorials
St Albans, Hertfordshire Link
HullChalk Crosses
Shoreham, Kent
Lenham, KentBattlefield Crosses
Some temporary wooden grave markers were returned to families after the Great War and can be found in local churches and museums. The 'Returned from the Front' project has a searchable database Link
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This German example from 1914 in Oxfordshire marked the grave of one of the Old Contemptibles who died at Le Cateau in the one of the first engagements on the Western Front.
Animals in War
Animals in War, London
Freda's Grave, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Eastriggs, Dumfries and GallowayDrinking Troughs
Sandown, Isle of Wight
Batley, Yorkshire
Rawmarsh, Yorkshire
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