Jutland Centenary, 31st May, 2016
The Battle of Jutland was fought on 31st May and 1st June 1916. 14 British and 11 German ships were sunk with great loss of life. Over 6000 British lost…
Somme Centenary – Friday, July 1st.
Our Events calendar lists both commemorative events at the Memorial, bugler at 7.30 am and full service at 10.45 am. We will update with further details over the next weeks,…
Thomas Bows of Henconner Lane
We received these details from Nigel Glew, who is one of the volunteers transcribing and researching information on those interred in St.Peter’s Churchyard: “Flight Sgt No:1053096 Thomas Bows died on…
New Names to go on the Memorial
The four panels on Bramley War Memorial currently have 505 names inscribed from Wars and Conflicts from 1914 to 2011. Since April 2015 we have been researching other local people,…
Trooper Alfred Latto – 28th May, 1940
Our second “Flag Event” of this week was to both commemorate (for the second) year, the memory of Trooper Alfred Latto, who died aged 18 as part of the rearguard…
HMS Hood 75th Anniversary – We remember Jack Lawson
Tuesday 24th of May, 2016 was the 75th anniversary of the loss of HMS Hood in the Denmark Strait in between Iceland and Denmark. She had a crew of 1418…