See sculptures At The National Arboretum, from the Burma Railway to the Christmas Truce - memorials and hope from wartime and deaths and survivors worldwide

Berlin Airlift Memorial. A plane shooting into the sky.

My mother's first husband was missing presumed dead from a plane over El Alamein the year before the famous battle which was a turning point in Allied success in World War two .

Burma Railway Memorial. The rails.

Association of Jewish Ex Service Men and Women. Part of the six point star of David, which Moslems call the seal of Solomon, broken but letting in the light for future generations. I am the daughter of my mother's second husband. I don't know whether my mother's first husband was Jewish. They married in a register office. His surname was Godfrey. My mother said he went to St Paul's school. I phoned the famous, grand St Paul's school. They had no record of him, but suggested he might have attended St Paul's school in London's East End.

Shot At Dawn

A member of a later generation of the family of a young man shot at dawn campaigned for a pardon for all the young men shot at  dawn. For cowardice. But in later generations they might have been diagnosed with shell shock. Especially as many of them were under age teenagers who had lied about their age to get into the army.

Here is my favourite memorial.

All kinds of bereavement affecting British nationals, as well as other people worldwide, are recorded.

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death.  In wartime and peacetime.

Here is my favourite memorial.

Christmas Truce. You may recall the WW1 story of how the troops on both sides played Christmas music and then went out into the no man's land between them to play a game of football. This happened not just in one place. Afterwards the troops declined to start firing their guns again. The commanders had to order them to restart the firing.

 You can look up an A to Z of events, people and places commemorated. These include:

People

Shot at dawn statue from WW1 

A star like a window cut from a stone wall for the Jewish ex service men and women.

Events & Places

Gallipoli

Useful Websites

https://www.thenma.org.uk/visit-us/what's-here/the-memorials/list-of-memorials