By email to ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacol#ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacol.There are a number of ways you can contribute to this wiki: If you would like to support this project you are welcome to submit any more information on the memorials and the people commemorated on them. This is intended for anyone to add the information they have but also to help those who have found that their relative or person of interest was a Lewisham person, but their name is not on a local Memorial. If you have anything to add to this site contact the Local History and Archives Centre at ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacol#ku.vog.mahsiwel|seiduts.lacolĬlick here For the Site Lewisham Book of RemembranceĪlso there is a site for people to add information about local Lewisham people who died during the First World War. This site will be added to over the next 5 years, so revist and see the new material we are adding. There is a history of Lewisham Military Hospital, Conscription, research into local Conscientious Objectors and the Military Tribunals. Local images of the area at the time and local Military images. This site is being added to but includes articles from local Newspapers including the first one after War was declared. Latest!! Lewisham in the First World WarĪ new site from Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre focusing on the present London Borough of Lewisham area during the First World War. * Material provided by Alan Humphries January & September 2009. And Henry James Drew material provided by John Bennett his Great Great Nephew, 2017. Do you have information about someone whose name appears on a memorial in the borough? An example of the type of personal details we would like to add to this site, and collect for the archives, can be seen at Albert Baker, Humphries, William V A*, Humphries, William Henry James* and Tappenden, Alfred Bernard*. Do you know of any memorials not yet included? As we do not hold any Service or Regimental records here, we also want to record details of the people commemorated. We need your help to complete this project. This is an ongoing project, which aims eventually to include all the war memorials in the borough, with descriptions, pictures, locations (marked on a map), inscriptions, names recorded, biographies, newscuttings, and histories. Thanks to our former volunteers Ann O'Brien and the late Andy Pepper for their hard work this project is a comprehensive resource.įor more information on this project click here. The initial information was collected by Paul Dyer, a regional volunteer with the UK National Inventory of War Memorials, who generously donated a copy of his research. After the Field of Remembrance closes, the tokens are collected and burnt, and the ashes are scattered at the First World War battlefields in northern France and Belgium.This wiki was launched in November 2008 and it lists the memorials in the current London Borough of Lewisham area, which includes the old Metropolitan Boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford. Each year, in the eight days from the morning of the Thursday before Remembrance Sunday until the evening of following Thursday, plots in the Field of Remembrance in Westminster are planted with hundreds of remembrance crosses and other tokens of remembrance. Remembrance crosses and other tokens of remembrance are often left at war memorials or war graves. Other tokens of remembrance are now also made in a variety of shapes for other religions, including a Star of David for the Jewish faith, a crescent for the Muslim faith, a Sikh Khanda, and a plain shape for "no faith". The remembrance cross employs an explicitly Christian symbol, linking the loss of a deceased soldier with the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross. A remembrance cross is usually decorated with an remembrance poppy and the phrase "Remembrance" or "In Remembrance", Remembrance crosses are produced by the Poppy Factory in Richmond and Lady Haig's Poppy Factory in Edinburgh, which also produce remembrance poppies and wreaths. A remembrance cross lying on a bed of remembrance poppies at a service in Helmand, AfghanistanĪ Remembrance cross is a small wooden cross used to remember the sacrifice of the armed forces in the United Kingdom, particularly during Remembrancetide, the period of the annual Poppy Appeal.
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