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  1. Kyeburn and Kokonga Patriotic Committee : Commemorative certificate

    Reference Number: MS-2060
    Description: The certificate commemorates the unveiling of the Kyeburn and Kokonga war memorial on Anzac Day 1920. It includes a photograph of the memorial, the names of the fallen soldiers, and a poem written for the occasion.
    Names: Kyeburn and Kokonga Patriotic Committee
    Places: Kyeburn
    Places: Kokonga
    Creator: Kyeburn and Kokonga Patriotic Committee
    Subjects: War m...
    Hocken Collections - Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago via DigitalNZ

    api.digitalnz.org/records/5288

    #WarMemorials #WorldWar

  2. Protesters climbing #warMemorials could face jail & £1,000 fine proposes #Cleverly

    Have the #toriesOut gone stark staring mad?

    Every village in the country has a war memorial - and in many cases a sad group of teenagers who gather round it at dusk to have a smoke & mess about

    What a lot of stupid #rightPopulist BS.......

    Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead....

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68196289

  3. Treallach itealain aig Na Lochan Sgeireach, Gearrloch.

    Wreckage of US Liberator aircraft at the Lochan Sgeireach, Gairloch.

    #Highland #WarMemorials

  4. Africa Orientale Italiana

    Veneziani caduti in A.O.I. (Africa Orientale Italiana)

    At the vaporetto stop at Sant’Elena, the base of a flagpole carries the text Veneziani caduti in A.O.I. — Venetians fallen in A.O.I.

    There’s nothing else written. So a monument to commemorate fallen soldiers, but where?

    A bit of research shows that those three letters […]

    #italian-venice #colonialism #fascism #santelena #venezia #venice #war-memorials #world-war-i #world-war-ii

    https://historywalksvenice.com/2023/04/africa-orientale-italiana/

  5. Africa Orientale Italiana

    Veneziani caduti in A.O.I. (Africa Orientale Italiana)

    At the vaporetto stop at Sant’Elena, the base of a flagpole carries the text Veneziani caduti in A.O.I. — Venetians fallen in A.O.I.

    There’s nothing else written. So a monument to commemorate fallen soldiers, but where?

    A bit of research shows that those three letters […]

    #italian-venice #colonialism #fascism #santelena #venezia #venice #war-memorials #world-war-i #world-war-ii

    https://historywalksvenice.com/2023/04/africa-orientale-italiana/

  6. "Eighty years ago, on this date of 15 February 1942, the former Ford Factory witnessed the darkest chapter in Singapore’s history, when the British unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese, marking the start of Singapore’s three-and-a-half years under the Japanese Occupation."

    remembersingapore.org/2022/02/

    #History #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WarMemorials