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Rediscovered WWI memorial plaque returned to community
A WWI memorial plaque has been returned to a local community after being rediscovered through family history research.
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Rare WWI memorial plaque for Irish woman, and how stamps became sign of Irish resistance before Easter Rising
An early 20th-century postage stamp was a clear marker of national identity. In Ireland, which was then part of the United Kingdom, the only way to send a letter was to affix it with a British stamp, ...
Thieves steal bronze WWI plaques from Loch Memorial Reserve weeks before Anzac Day
Heartless crooks have stolen two bronze World War I plaques from a memorial reserve in South Gippsland, just weeks before ...
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WW1 Dead Man's Penny
This World War I Bronze Memorial Plaque, commonly known as the Dead Man's Penny, commemorates the death of my great-grandfather, William Collins, who died in November 1916, in a field hospital ...
7 Sikhs' supreme sacrifice etched in memory
A memorial plaque dedicated to seven Sikhs, who laid down their lives during World War-I, in an old police post in the ...
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Bruton Parish Church hangs plaque to explain existing Civil War-era tablet
The new explanatory plaque is mounted just below a white marble Confederate memorial tablet inside Bruton Parish Church. (Wilford Kale/Freelance) The new plaque reads: Wounded soldiers of both ...
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FM: memorial plaque unveiled at Soviet military cemetery in Austrian St. Pölten
A memorial plaque has been unveiled at a Soviet military cemetery in the capital of Lower Austria. The ceremony, dedicated to the 80th ...