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Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia
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Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia
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The National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing, China
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The Monument to the People's Heroes in Beijing, China
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Pacifist memorial at Gentioux, France with the inscription Maudite soit la guerre (Cursed be war)
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Pacifist memorial at Gentioux, France with the inscription Maudite soit la guerre (Cursed be war)
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German memorial commemorating soldiers from the town of Niederaltdorf who died in World War I
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German memorial commemorating soldiers from the town of Niederaltdorf who died in World War I
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The Yasukuni Shrine in Japan
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The Yasukuni Shrine in Japan
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Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland.
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Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland.
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Monument to the Women of World War II in London, United Kingdom
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Monument to the Women of World War II in London, United Kingdom
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The Liberty Memorial, National World War I Memorial of the USA in Kansas City, Missouri
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The Liberty Memorial, National World War I Memorial of the USA in Kansas City, Missouri
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The Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand with the Cenotaph in front
File:Lahden Sotamuistomerkki 1998.jpg|thumb|right|A war memorial erected in 1998 in Lahti, FinlandFinlandFile:Memorial 1914-1918 02.jpg|thumb|right|The Interallied Memorial of Cointe, Liège, BelgiumBelgiumA war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war.- AucklandMuseum edit gobeirne.jpg -
The Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand with the Cenotaph in front
Symbolism
Historical usage
It has been suggested that the world's earliest known war memorial is the White Monument at Tell Banat, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, which dates from the 3rd millennium BC and appears to have involved the systematic burial of fighters from a state army.WEB,weblink Site in Syria could be world's oldest war memorial, study finds, 27 May 2021, The Guardian, The Nizari Ismailis of the Alamut period (the Assassins) had made a secret roll of honor in Alamut Castle containing the names of the assassins and their victims during their uprising.BOOK, Bressler, Richard, The Thirteenth Century: A World History, 2018, McFarland, 978-1-4766-7185-7, 123,weblink en, The oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom is Oxford University's All Souls College. It was founded in 1438 with the provision that its fellows should pray for those killed in the long wars with France.WEB,weblink History of the College, All Soul's College, University of Oxford, 29 May 2016, War memorials for the Franco-Prussian War (1870â71) were the first in Europe to have rank-and-file soldiers commemorated by name.Varley, Karine. Under the Shadow of Defeat: The War of 1870â71 in French Memory. Palgrave 2008. Every soldier that was killed was granted a permanent resting-place as part of the terms of the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871).To commemorate the millions who died in World War I, war memorials became commonplace in communities large and small around the world.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}Modern usage
In modern times the main intent of war memorials is not to glorify war, but to honor those who have died. Sometimes, as in the case of the Warsaw Genuflection of Willy Brandt, they may also serve as focal points of increasing understanding between previous enemies.Using modern technology an international project is currently archiving all post-1914 Commonwealth war graves and Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials to create a virtual memorial (see The War Graves Photographic Project for further details).History
World War I
During WWI, many nations saw massive devastation and loss of life. More people lost their lives in the east than in the west, but the outcome was different. In the west, and in response to the victory there obtained, most of the cities in the countries involved in the conflict erected memorials, with the memorials in smaller villages and towns often listing the names of each local soldier who had been killed in addition (so far as the decision by the French and British in 1916 to construct governmentally designed cemeteries was concerned) to their names being recorded on military headstones, often against the will of those directly involved, and without any opportunity of choice in the British Empire (whose war graves were administered by the Imperial War Graves Commission). Massive British monuments commemorating thousands of dead with no identified war grave, such as the Menin Gate at Ypres and the Thiepval memorial on the Somme, were also constructed.The Liberty Memorial, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a memorial dedicated to all Americans who served in the Great War. For various reasons connected with their character, the same may be said to apply to certain governmental memorials in the United Kingdom (The Cenotaph in London, relating to the Empire in general, and the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh, also with a reference to the Empire, but with particular connections to the United Kingdom, having been opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927 and with the King and the Queen the first visitors and contributors of a casket of the Scottish names for addition within the Shrine). In Maryland, in the center of the city of Baltimore facing the Baltimore City Hall to the west is a geometric paved tree-lined plaza with the War Memorial Building to the east with a large marble decorated civic auditorium and historical and veterans museum below, designed by Laurence Hall Fowler, dedicated 1925.Pacifist war memorials and those relating to war and peace
After World War I, some towns in France set up pacifist war memorials. Instead of commemorating the glorious dead, these memorials denounce war with figures of grieving widows and children rather than soldiers. Such memorials provoked anger among veterans and the military in general. The most famous is at Gentioux-Pigerolles in the department of Creuse. Below the column which lists the name of the fallen stands an orphan in bronze pointing to an inscription 'Maudite soit la guerre' (Cursed be war). Feelings ran so high that the memorial was not officially inaugurated until 1990 and soldiers at the nearby army camp were under orders to turn their heads when they walked past. Another such memorial is in the small town of Ãqueurdreville-Hainneville (formerly Ãqueurdreville) in the department of Manche. Here the statue is of a grieving widow with two small children.BOOK, Coëpel, Philippe, Que maudite soit la guerre, Editions des champs, 1997, Bricqueboscq, 204, 2-910138-08-9, For pictures of the pacifist memorials at Gentioux-Pigerolles and at Ãqueurdreville-Hainneville and elsewhere see (:fr:Monument aux morts pacifiste)There seems to be no exact equivalent form of a pacifist memorial within the United Kingdom but evidently sentiments were in many cases identical. Thus, and although it seems that this has never been generally recognized, it can be argued that there was throughout the United Kingdom a construction of war memorials with reference to the concept of peace (e.g. West Hartlepool War Memorial in what is now known as Hartlepool (previously West Hartlepool) with the inscription 'Thine O Lord is the Victory' relating to amongst other architecture the 1871 Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences with a frieze including the same words and concluding 'Glory be to God on high and on earth peace').World War II and later
In many cases, World War I memorials were later extended to show the names of locals who died in the World War II in addition.Since that time memorials to the dead in other conflicts such as the Korean War and Vietnam War have also noted individual contributions, at least in the West.In relation to actions which may well in point of fact be historically connected with the world wars even if this happens, for whatever reason, not to be a matter of general discussion (e.g. occupation by Western forces in the 1920s of Palestine and other areas being the homelands of Arabs in the Near East and followed eighty years later in 2001 by the '9/11' raid on New York and elsewhere in the United States) similar historically and architecturally significant memorials are also designed and constructed (vide National September 11 Memorial).Types
- War memorials can differ significantly in type and composition. Many war memorials often take the form of a traditional monument or statue, while others consist of entire buildings, often containing a museum, while yet others are simple plaques. War memorials can take a variety of other forms, including, but not limited to, commemorative gardens, stadiums, eternal flames, urban plazas, stained glass windows, gateways, fountains and/or pools of water, military equipment, and parks.
- War memorials often serve as a meeting place for commemorative services. As such, they are often found near the centre of town, or contained in a park or plaza to allow easy public access.
- Many war memorials bear plaques listing the names of those that died in battle. Sometimes these lists can be very long. Some war memorials are dedicated to a specific battle, while others are more general in nature and bear inscriptions listing various theatres of war.
- Many war memorials have epitaphs relating to the unit, battle or war they commemorate. For example, an epitaph which adorns numerous memorials in Commonwealth countries is "The Ode" by Laurence Binyon:
- The Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada, which remembers ex-cadets who died on military service includes lines of Rupert Brooke's poem, "The Dead":
- In the years following the end of World War I a heated debate occurred in the United States as to whether memorials should be the standard sort that were created after the Civil War or a more progressive sort of "living memorials". These consisted of bridges, parks, libraries, playgrounds, community centers, civic auditoriums and athletic fields.Piehler, G. Kurt Remembering War the American Way, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1995 pp. 105â109 Examples include Soldier Field and Veterans Stadium.
- Underwater memorials commemorate veterans and soldiers who served as divers during their wartime missions.Sean Kimmons, Army News Service (August 14, 2019) Army veterans find healing in new underwater memorial The underwater memorial can be visited by scuba divers.
Tank monument
A tank monument or armoured memorial is a tank withdrawn from military service and displayed to commemorate a battle or a military unit. Obsolete tanks may also be displayed as gate guards outside military bases.Immediately following the First World War, a number of obsolete tanks were presented to towns and cities throughout Britain for display and for use as memorials: most were scrapped in the 1920s and 1930s, but one that survives is a Mark IV Female tank at Ashford, Kent.Several Second World War tanks are preserved as memorials to major armoured offensives in the Ardennes, such as the Battle of Sedan and the Battle of the Bulge. These include:{{citation |chapter=Ardennes Area Battlefield |title=World War II |page=318 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |year=2010 |isbn=978-1405335201 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/worldwarii0000unse_h4a8/page/318 }}- an Achilles tank destroyer in La Roche
- a Panther tank in the village Celles
- a Sherman tank in the town square of Bastogne
- a Tiger II tank in the village of La Gleize
In cemeteries
Many cemeteries tended by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have an identical war memorial called the Cross of Sacrifice designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield that varies in height from 18 ft to 32 ft depending on the size of the cemetery. If there are one thousand or more burials, a Commonwealth cemetery will contain a Stone of Remembrance, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with words from the Wisdom of Sirach: "Their name liveth for evermore"; all the Stones of Remembrance are 11 ft 6 ins long and 5 ft high with three steps leading up to them.Arlington National Cemetery has a Canadian Cross of Sacrifice with the names of all the citizens of the USA who lost their lives fighting in the Canadian forces during the Korean War and two World Wars.Controversy
War memorials can sometimes be politically controversial. A notable case is that of the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, where a number of convicted World War II war criminals are interred. Chinese and Korean representatives have often protested against the visits of Japanese politicians to the shrine. The visits have in the past led to severe diplomatic conflicts between the nations, and Japanese businesses were attacked in China after a visit by former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the shrine was widely reported and criticized in Chinese and Korean media.Japan: Chinese foreign minister on fence-mending visit â Radio Australia program transcript, date unknownIn a similar case, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl was criticised by writers Günter Grass and Elie Wiesel for visiting the war cemetery at Bitburg (in the company of Ronald Reagan) which also contained the bodies of SS troops.Reagan Joins Kohl in Brief Memorial at Bitburg Graves â New York Times, Monday 6 May 1985 Unlike the case of the Yasukuni Shrine, there was no element of intentional disregard of international opinion involved, as is often claimed for the politician visits to the Japanese shrine.Soviet World War II memorials included quotes of Joseph Stalin's texts, frequently replaced after his death. Such memorials were often constructed in city centres and now are sometimes regarded as symbols of Soviet occupation and removed, which in turn may spark protests (see Bronze Soldier of Tallinn).The Fusiliers' memorial arch to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who fought in the Boer War, erected at 1907 in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, was called "Traitors' Gate" by the Redmondites and later Irish Republicans, from whose point of view Irish soldiers going off to fight the British Empire's wars were traitors to Ireland. The sharpness of the controversy gradually faded, and while the term "Traitors' Gate" is still in occasional colloquial use in Dublin daily life, it has mostly lost its pejorative meaning.In Australia, in 1981, historian Henry Reynolds raised the issue of whether war memorials should be erected to Indigenous Australians who had died fighting against British invaders on their lands.How, then, do we deal with the Aboriginal dead? White Australians frequently say that 'all that' should be forgotten. But it will not be. It cannot be. Black memories are too deeply, too recently scarred. And forgetfulness is a strange prescription coming from a community which has revered the fallen warrior and emblazoned the phrase 'Lest We Forget' on monuments throughout the land. [...] [D]o we make room for the Aboriginal dead on our memorials, cenotaphs, boards of honour and even in the pantheon of national heroes? If we are to continue to celebrate the sacrifice of men and women who died for their country can we deny admission to fallen tribesmen? There is much in their story that Australians have traditionally admired. They were ever the underdogs, were always outgunned, yet frequently faced death without flinching. If they did not die for Australia as such they fell defending their homelands, their sacred sites, their way of life. What is more the blacks bled on their own soil and not half a world away furthering the strategic objectives of a distant Motherland whose influence must increasingly be seen as of transient importance in the history of the continent.Reynolds, Henry, The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal resistance to the European invasion of Australia, 1981, {{ISBN|0-86840-892-1}}, p. 202Reynolds' suggestion proved controversial.Reynolds, Henry, Why Weren't We Told?, 1999, {{ISBN|0-14-027842-7}}, chapter 12: "Lest We Forget", pp. 169â184 Occasional memorials have been erected to commemorate Aboriginal people's resistance to colonisation, or to commemorate white massacres of Indigenous Australians. These memorials have often generated controversy. For example, a 1984 memorial to the Kalkadoon people's "resistance against the paramilitary force of European settlers and the Queensland Native Mounted Police" was "frequently shot at" and "eventually blown up".ibid, pp. 177â178With the advent of long war, some memorials are constructed before the conflict is over, leaving space for extra names of the dead. For instance, the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial in Irvine, CA, memorializes an ongoing pair of US wars, and has space to inscribe the names of approximately 8,000 fallen servicemembers,WEB,weblink northwood_memorial.jpg (image), 3.bp.blogspot.com, 31 March 2018, while the UK National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield in England hosts the UK's National Armed Forces Memorial which displays the names of the more than 16,000 people who have already died on active service in the UK armed forces since World War II, with more space available for future fatalities.List of war memorials
Africa
Egypt
Somaliland
Americas
Brazil
Canada
Falkland Islands
United States
- The Hiker (Kitson) and The Hiker (Newman)
- Indiana World War Memorial Plaza
- Iron Mike
- Korean War Veterans Memorial
- Liberation (Holocaust memorial)
- Liberty Memorial
- List of memorials to the Grand Army of the Republic
- List of Confederate monuments and memorials
- List of monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield
- List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials
- Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial
- National Cemetery
- Navy â Merchant Marine Memorial
- Northwood Gratitude and Honor MemorialWEB,weblink Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial > Home, www.northwoodmemorial.com, 31 March 2018,
- Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument
- Soldier Field
- Spirit of the American Doughboy
- Spirit of the American Navy
- Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier
- Tomb of the Unknowns
- United States Marine Corps War Memorial
- United States Navy Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Vietnam Women's Memorial
- World War I Memorial (Kansas City, Missouri)
- World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
- World War II Memorial
Memorial coliseums and stadiums in the United States
- Memorial Coliseum, Lexington, Kentucky
- Memorial Coliseum, Corpus Christi, Texas
- Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon
- Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama
- Coleman Coliseum, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- BeardâEavesâMemorial Coliseum, Auburn, Alabama
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
- Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida
- VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida
- Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona
- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum, Evansville, Indiana
- Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
- New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut
- Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Marion, Ohio
- Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- War Memorial Stadium (Buffalo, New York)
- War Memorial Stadium (Arkansas), Little Rock, Arkansas
Asia
Bangladesh
- Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, Savar, in Bangladesh
- Mainamati War Cemetery, Comilla in Bangladesh (WWII)
- Chittagong War Cemetery, Chattogram in Bangladesh (WWII)
China
Hong Kong
India
- Amar Jawan Jyoti (to commemorate the dead and unknown soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces who sacrificed their lives defending India)
- India Gate (Dedicated to the soldiers of the British Indian army)
- Khalanga War Memorial, Dehradun
- National War Memorial, New Delhi (National War Memorial (NWM) at India Gate built on the sprawling lawns of India Gate, in memory of the war heroes of Indian forces)
- War Memorial, Darjeeling
- War Memorial of the 49th Bengalee Regiment, Kolkata (dedicated to the soldiers of 49th Bengali Regiment, who died in World War I)
- Victory War Memorial, formerly called the Cupid's bow, is a memorial in Chennai, India, erected in the memory of those from the Madras presidency who died in the world wars.
Iraq
Israel
- National Memorial Hall (Mount Herzl) (site of Israel's national cemetery and other memorial facilities)
- Yad Vashem (located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, dedicated to gentiles who, at personal risk and without a financial or evangelistic motive, chose to save Jews from genocide)
- Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations (dedicated to honor those gentiles who during the Holocaust of World War 2 risked their lives to save Jews)
- Yom Hazikaron ( lit. "The Day of Remembrance" dedicated for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism)
- Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial
- Israeli casualties of war memorials:
- Davidka memorial
- (:simple:Memorial for the Defenders of the Old City of Jerusalem|Memorial for the Defenders of the Old City of Jerusalem)
- Beit Lid memorial
- Ashdod Port memorial
- Avivim school bus memorial
- Avshalom Feinberg memorial
- Hill 69 memorial
- Jaffa Road bombing memorial
- Mahal memorial
- Ma'alot memorial
- Six-Day War memorial
- Coastal Road memorial
- Maxim restaurant massacre memorial
- Be'erot Izhak memorial
- Bus suicide bombing memorial in Tel Aviv
- Haganah memorial
- Second Lebanon War memorial
- 1948 ArabâIsraeli War
- Dolphinarium massacre memorial
- Combat Engineering Corps memorial
- Druze soldiers memorial in Daliyat Al-Karmel
- Olei Hagardom memorial
- Fatality victims of Palestinian rocket attacks memorial
- Beersheba suicide terror attack memorial
- Fallen Israeli policemen memorial
- Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Israeli Engineering Corp
- Convoy of the Lamed-Heh memorial
- Kiryat Anavim military cemetery
- Independence War Memorial in Kibbutz Malkia
- Yad La-Shiryon (lit. The Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun)
Japan
Lebanon
Malaysia
- Tugu Negara (National Monument)
Myanmar
- Taukkyan War Cemetery (British Commonwealth "Burma")
Nepal
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Europe
Austria
Belarus
- Brest Fortress (Brest)
- Khatyn massacre
Belgium
- The Interallied Memorial of Cointe (Liège)
- Menin Gate Memorial (Ypres)
- Saint Julien Memorial (Langemark)
- Island of Ireland Peace Park (Messines)
- Lion's Mound (Waterloo)
Croatia
Denmark
Estonia
- Independence War Victory Column (Tallinn)
France
- Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park
- Douaumont Ossuary Verdun
- Welsh Memorial at Mametz Wood
- Notre Dame de Lorette
- Pozières Memorial (British World War I memorial)
- Verdun Memorial
- VillersâBretonneux Australian National Memorial (Australian World War I memorial)
- Vimy Ridge Memorial (Canadian World War I memorial)
- Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (British World War I memorial)
- Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial (USA World War II memorial)
- see also Monuments aux Morts
Germany
- Tannenberg memorial
- Völkerschlachtdenkmal
- Befreiungshalle
- Hermannsdenkmal
- Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)
- Neue Wache Berlin
- Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars
- Aegidienkirche, Hanover, church ruined in World War II, with a Hiroshima peace bell
Ireland
- Garden of Remembrance "all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom" (1798â1921)
- Irish National War Memorial Gardens "to the memory of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914â1918"
Italy
- Redipuglia War Memorial
- Asiago War Memorial
- Sacrario militare di Pocol
- Sacrario militare dei Caduti Oltremare di Bari
Latvia
Malta
Netherlands
- National Monument (Amsterdam)
- Waalsdorpervlakte
- Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
- Netherlands American Cemetery
- Groesbeek Memorial, Canadian War Cemetery
- Liberty Monument Welberg (Welberg (Steenbergen))
Poland
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Westerplatte Monument
- Warsaw Uprising Monument
- MaÅy Powstaniec
- Monument to the Heroes of Warsaw
- Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
- Monument to the Polish Underground State and Home Army
- Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East
- Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino in Warsaw
Romania
- Mausoleum of MÄrÄÅeÅti
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
- Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak
- Mausoleum of MateiaÈ, ArgeÈ County
Russia
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Moscow)
- Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery (Siege of Leningrad)
- Poklonnaya Hill (Battle of Moscow)
- Mamayev Kurgan (Battle of Stalingrad)
Slovenia
- Tomb of National Heroes (Ljubljana)
- Vojko's Plaque
- Monument to the Victims of All Wars
- List of World War II monuments and memorials in Slovenia
- Monuments to the Slovene Partisans
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
- Monument of Liberty, Istanbul
- Aviation Martyrs' Monument
- Balkan Wars Memorial Cemetery in Edirne
- Ãanakkale Martyrs' Memorial
- 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial
- Respect to Mehmetçik Monument
- Atatürk and Åerife Bacı Monument
- Victory Monument (Ankara)
- Cyprus Memorial Forest in Silifke
UK
- Animals in War Memorial
- The National Armed Forces Memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire
- The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
- The Cenotaph, Belfast
- Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Highland
- Great Eastern Railway War Memorial, at Liverpool Street station (to the east)
- Great Western Railway War Memorial, at Paddington station (to the west)
- Hall of Memory, Birmingham
- Lewis War Memorial, Stornoway, Western Isles
- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway War Memorial, at London Bridge station (to the south east)
- Battle of Maiwand, Reading
- Midland Railway War Memorial, in Derby
- War memorials in Monmouth, Wales
- National Firefighters Memorial
- North Eastern Railway War Memorial, in York
- Northern Ireland War Memorial
- Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh
- Scottish War Memorials
- Shot at Dawn Memorial
- Southampton Cenotaph Lutyens first memorial
- The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey
- Welsh National War Memorial, Cardiff
- Women of World War II, London
- Women of Steel, Sheffield
Oceania
Australia
- ANZAC War Memorial (Sydney)
- Australian War Memorial (Canberra)
- Fremantle War Memorial (Fremantle)
- Great Ocean Road (Victoria)
- Hobart Cenotaph (Hobart)
- State War Memorial (Perth)
- National War Memorial (Adelaide)
- Shrine of Remembrance (Brisbane), and World War I memorials in Queensland
- Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne)
- Mount Macedon Memorial Cross (Mount Macedon)
New Zealand
See also
- Alexander Carrick (Scottish sculptor responsible for several Scottish war memorials)
- Avenue of Honour
- Battlefield Cross (To honor an individual soldier)
- Commemorative plaque
- Mausolea
- Peace movement
- Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (memorials specifically dedicated to unknown soldiers)
- Tropaeum Traiani, in Romania
- UK National Inventory of War Memorials (online database listing all war memorials in the UK)
- War Memorials Trust (UK charity that gives free advice about and grants towards war memorial conservation)
- War Memorial Stadium (for list of stadiums so named in the United States)
References
{{Reflist}}External links
{{commons category|War memorials}}General
- Sites of Memory (Historical markers, memorials, monuments, and cemeteries worldwide)
France
- Mémorial pacifist in French
- Queutchny1418 (As of 26 April 2014, more than 5240 pictures of 1914â1918 memorials)(in French)
- Mémorial-GenWeb (French war memorials (photos and inscriptions), in French)
Germany
- German war memorials (photos and inscriptions), in German
- Remembering The Reich (German World War II and Holocaust memorials, private travel blog entry)
Ireland
- Irish War Memorials, (An inventory of war memorials in Ireland)
Japan
- Kamikaze Images â Monuments, (monuments for WWII Special Attack Forces including Kamikaze Corps)
United Kingdom
- Architecture (from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website)
- UK War Memorials Register (the comprehensive national register of over 68,000 UK war memorials and the names of over 900,000 of the individuals they commemorate)
- Scottish War Memorials Project (public access forum recording all of Scotland's War Memorials)
- Charity recording North East War Memorials including names and images.
United States
- United States Navy Memorial (including Navy Log and naval history information)
- Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument, (Coronado California)
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