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11th May 2012 - Members Only
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10th November 2011
War Memorials Trust latest Bulletin, no 51, has recently been published. It is packed with information on the charity, recent grants and details of In Memoriam 2014 the initiative to offer greater protection to our war memorial heritage by protecting it with SmartWater thanks to the generosity of the SmartWater Foundation. An electronic version of the Bulletin can be read at...
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6th November 2011
British veterans awarded the Pingat Jasa Malaysia (PJM) medal have been given permission by Her Majesty The Queen to wear it for the first time during Remembrance events next Sunday.
The Government of Malaysia introduced the medal in 2005 and awarded it to British and Commonwealth veterans who served in the conflict in Malaya in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Approval is not normally given...
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6th November 2011 - Members Only
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1st November 2011
A national project to identify, record and protect Britain's estimated 100,000 war memorials has been launched to coincide with the upcoming centenary of the First World War in 2014.
The nation’s valued war memorials are under increasing threat from thieves and vandals attempting to steal metal from monuments. Despite the metal having relatively little monetary value it is estimated that...
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16th September 2011
Bradford Metropolitan District Council are planning to erect a memorial to those men and women from the District who have died in active service in conflicts since World War II.
The Council, in partnership with the Royal British Legion, is currently seeking appropriate names and has already secured 19. The memorial will be placed in the gardens behind the Cenotaph in the City Centre.
If anyone...
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15th September 2011 - Members Only
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14th June 2011
War Memorials Trust latest Bulletin, no 49, has recently been published. It is packed with information on the charity, recent grants work and included an invitation to our AGM for members alongside an extract of the Annual Report and Accounts.
To read click on the following link: www.warmemorials.org/back-issues/.
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18th May 2012
Veterans Scotland- West Lothian signs agreement with Armed Forces
A historic agreement is forging stronger links between the West Lothian community and the Armed Forces. Thirty two Covenants...
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