title: British War Memorials
author:  Mark Quinlan 
description: A thousand war memorials were erected in Britain to commemorate the fallen of the Boer War and the memorialisation process would be given added impetus by the magnitude of the nations losses in the Great War. In the period between the Armistice and the General Strike of 1926, both in UK and overseas, many thousands of war memorials would be erected by communities, the Imperial War Graves Commission, schools, universities, government departments, businesses, clubs, municipal authorities, regiments, formations of the armed forces, or in some exceptional cases by the entire nation to commemorate a particular individual. Some communities erected no memorial at all and the reasons why are examined here. As will be seen in this study, the forms employed after the Great War were limited only by the ingenuity of the individuals and organising committees concerned. They would include: literal statuary in stone and bronze, memorial chapels, church furnishing, ornamental fountains, plaques, Celtic crosses, Crosses of Sacrifice, social facilities, cenotaphs, obelisks, screen walls, clock towers, brasses, steam locomotives, musical instruments, stained glass windows, cottage hospitals, retirement homes, rolls of honour and books of remembrance.
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  [Dedication](part0002.html#Contents)
  
  
  
  
  
  For Liz. For everything.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE UNWANTED DEAD
  
  
  Chris Lloyd
  
  
  
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [Dedication](part0000.html#Anchor)
  
  
  [Title Page](part0001.html#Anchor-3)
  
  
  [Friday 14th June 1940](part0003.html#Anchor-4)
  
  
  [1](part0004.html#Anchor-5)
  
  
  [2](part0005.html#Anchor-6)
  
  
  [3](part0006.html#Anchor-7)
  
  
  [4](part0007.html#Anchor-10)
  
  
  [Wednesday 20th May 1925](part0008.html#Anchor-11)
  
  
  [Saturday 15th June 1940](part0009.html#Anchor-12)
  
  
  [5](part0010.html#Anchor-15)
  
  
  [6](part0011.html#Anchor-14)
  
  
  [7](part0012.html#Anchor-16)
  
  
  [8](part0013.html#Anchor-17)
  
  
  [9](part0014.html#Anchor-18)
  
  
  [Sunday 24th May 1925](part0015.html#Anchor-19)
  
  
  [Sunday 16th June 1940](part0016.html#Anchor-20)
  
  
  [10](part0017.html#Anchor-21)
  
  
  [11](part0018.html#Anchor-22)
  
  
  [12](part0019.html#Anchor-23)
  
  
  [13](part0020.html#Anchor-24)
  
  
  [Thursday 28th 