Sub-Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, RNVR (1924 - 1944)

 1. Sub Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, R.N.V.R. (1924)
[Courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']

2. Sub Lt. (A) Cyril Moore, R.N.V.R. (1924)
[Courtesy of Mr. David Mason of Whitehaven]

 3. Letter from Mr Cyril Moore (Snr.), April 1947
(To the Town Clerk, Whitehaven Town Council)
[Courtesy of Cumbria County Archives, Whitehaven]

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Pte. Frank Newall, Border Regiment (1919 - 1944)

 1. Private Francis ('Frank') Newall, Border Regiment

[Photograph courtesy of 'The Whitehaven News']

 2. Headstone of Pte. Frank Newall, Border Regiment

(Lille Southern Cemetery, Grave Ref.: 5 / A / 21)

[Photograph taken with permission]

 3. St John's Parish Church, Hensingham, Cumbria 

[Where Frank Newall was baptised (06/04/1919)]

4. St Bridget's Parish Church, Moresby, Cumbria

[Where Frank Newall married Jessie Agnew (1942)]

5. John Young Charlton and Frank Newall
(with an unidentified relative in Naval uniform)
[Photograph contributed by Valerie Stephenson]

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Two Brothers who remain forever young

 1. Normandy Veterans Association Memorial Tablet
[St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

 2. Poppies in remembrance of Robert and Joseph Casson
[70th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 2014]

3. The Casson family headstone (Whitehaven Cemetery)
[It commemorates five members of the family] 

 4. Joseph Casson (left) and Robert Casson (right)
[Two brothers buried side-by-side in Normandy]

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The Tourcoing War Memorial, France (59)

1. "Towards Victory": Tourcoing's War Memorial

2. "Winged Victory": leading the Fallen to victory.

3. The Tourcoing War Memorial (reverse panels)

4. The list of Tourcoing's War Dead (1939 onwards)

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70th Anniversary of D-Day in West Cumbria

1. Order of Service of Remembrance (front cover)
70th anniversary of D-Day
[St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

 

 2. Floral tributes and poppy crosses
[Normandy Veterans Memorial, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

3. Some of the floral tributes placed in remembrance
[Friday 6 June 2014]

4. Poppy crosses remembering family and friends
[Friday 6 June 2014]

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Tourcoing in the summer of 1944

1. Poster for Tourcoing's "5th June 1944 Museum"

2. Tourcoing Town Hall (Nord), France

3. Tourcoing Town Hall memorials for two F.F.I. fighters

4. Tourcoing's "Peace Tree",  planted 2 April 1995

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The War Memorial for the Diocese of Lille

1. Notre Dame de la Treille Cathedral, Lille

2. The Diocese of Lille War Memorial

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Lille in northern France [Photograph No. 1] is dedicated to Notre Dame de la Treille. Inside the cathedral is a stone memorial tablet commemorating the diocesan priests, religious and seminarists who lost their lives in WW1, WW2 and the Algerian War [Photograph No. 2].

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