1. War Memorials Trust
Assembly
What are war memorials?

2. War memorials
Brackstead and Wickham Bishops, Essex (WM297) © War Memorials Trust, 2000
Newton Regis, Warwickshire (WM612) © War Memorials Trust, 2010

3. War memorials Blackpool, Lancashire (WM975) © Peter Jackson-Lee, 2011
Twywell, Northamptonshire (WM628) © D S Kenyon, 2010

4. A war memorial is…
Any physical object created, erected or installed to commemorate those involved in or affected by a conflict or war. Memorials to civilians and animals should be included.
Hales and Heckingham, Norfolk (WM233) © Jim Marriage, 2010

5. How many? There are an estimated 100,000 war memorials in the UK.
Walton on Thames, Surrey (WM805) © Farthing Collection, 1921
They are a focal point of many Remembrance services.
Hoxton, London (WM5096) © War Memorials Trust, 2011

6. The First World War
Two thirds of current war memorials created after the First World War.
Castle Donington, Leicestershire (WM3553) © Castle Donington PC, 2010

7. The First World War Most casualties were buried overseas.
Many were unidentified.
Many more were never found.
Filleigh, Devon (WM652) © Mr Alan Graveley, 2010

8. War memorials now
2014 marks 100 years since the start of the First World War.
Our war memorials still remind us of the sacrifices made during conflicts.
Knockagh, Co. Antrim (WM1862) © Carrickfergus Borough Council, 2006

9. The Kohima Epitaph When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.

10. In Flanders fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

11. For the fallen They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.