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The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 120 mm (4.7 in) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the Dead Man's Penny or Widow's Penny because of the superficial similarity to the much smaller penny coin (which had a diameter of only 30.86 mm (1.215 in)). 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a ...
Within a month, much of Europe was in a state of open warfare, resulting in the mobilization of more than 65 million European soldiers, [2] and more than 40 million casualties—including approximately 20 million deaths by the end of the war. [3]
Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom. The Imperial War Graves Commission had been established by Royal Charter in 1917. [1] Following the cessation of hostilities in 1918 at the end of the First World War, the Commission continued developing its plans to commemorate the war dead of both the British Army and troops from the Empire and its Dominions.
A man with a metal detector uncovers a tale of a soldier with two names that "bugged me for ages".
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On 27 June 2006, the British Government approved a National Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey, to take place after the death of the last known World War I veteran from the United Kingdom. On 11 November 2009, despite the survival to that date of Claude Choules and Florence Green, the commemoration was held following the death of Harry Patch ...
The first blue plaque to commemorate the life of a child will be unveiled at the house where he died. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in a chimney of a former Victorian pauper asylum in ...
An example of a First World War memorial plaque designed by Edward Carter Preston. Preston was born, and died, in Liverpool.He designed the bronze memorial plaques presented to the families of British servicemen and women who died during the First World War.