Of course you're right that we should continue to commemorate those
dreadful four years and the appalling waste that they represent.
-My point was that with is a British 20th century view of those years:
-Other parts of the world, even those that suffered badly in the First
World War, such as Russia, it is the Second World War, and the events
that surrounded it, that is now seen as the turning point.
-And why to we not seem to remember those who fell in earlier
conflicts?
Chris Wardle
City Archaeologist
Urban Design Group
Leicester City Council
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WWI really was a watershed moment though. An old-fashoined war fought
with
the full force of what modern technology had to offer - machines,
manpower,
chemicals, and no rules. Destruction and death on a truely massive
scale -
all played out on film for everyone to see for the first time. No-one
could've been shielded from the real horror of what warfare was all
about,
a state of mind which has influenced politics, art, literature and
popular
thought ever since. We shouldn't ever stop commemorating this moment -
it's
one of the defining factors of our society and should always remain
so.
Tony
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It's interesting how ,after almost 90 years, folk still regard the
First World War as a departure from what went before.
-How many of these Thankful Villages suffered casualties in WWII or
the
various small wars that our leaders have lead us into since?
-Another question is whether anyone at the start of the 20th century
sought to commemorate the dead of the Napoleonic Wars in the same way
that we are still doing for the First World War?
Chris Wardle
City Archaeologist
Urban Design Group
Leicester City Council
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Helen
Sorry didn't get that point, but do now.
Unfortunately it wouldn't work absolutely, would it?
Just because somewhere didn't have a World war I memorial wouldn't
mean
they were a thankful village, just that they didn't have a war
memorial.
The recent progs by Ian Hislop about WWI memorials show how they might
have lost memorials. As you note the database may not be complete -
does
it only record extant memorials or ones that used to exist? It looks
like only the former.
Also one may not have been built - not sure how they were
funded/built?
Still a useful resource though
best wishes
Nick Boldrini
Historic Environment Record Officer
Heritage Section
Countryside Service
North Yorkshire County Council
County Hall
Northallerton
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I thought that was the point - you can check their thankful village
status by seeing if they have a memorial..?
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