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Location: Wallingford, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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1. Wallingford Bridge – Wallingford Castle Meadows loop from Wallingford

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2. Benson Lock – Wallingford Bridge loop from Benson

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3. Shillingford Bridge – Wallingford Bridge loop from Crowmarsh Gifford

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Rombea

May 19, 2022

As in many places, there is a war memorial in Wallingford to commemorate the victims of past wars.

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Edvard

December 14, 2018

Wallingford war memorial, designed by Edward Guy Dawber and William Honeybone, unveiled in 1921. The memorial was updated to include those who died in the Second World War.

The inscription reads

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN HONOURED AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF WALLINGFORD WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919. THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE/PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW/NO SORROW BUT IN PRIDE/AND STRIVE TO LIVE/AS NOBLY AS THEY DIED" (At the base there is an added date to include the Second World War, 1939–1945)

First World War (1914–1918) - Total names on memorial: 81

Second World War (1939–1945) - Total names on memorial: 36

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallingford,_Oxfordshire

JakobusPilger

November 23, 2024

As a memorial to the many dead, such monuments - usually called "war memorials" in English - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, you let your servant depart in peace, as you have said..." says the so-called "Hymn of Simeon" (Luke 2, verse 29). However, the people who are remembered here did not depart in peace, but became victims of war and tyranny. Therefore, the term "fallen memorial" is now sometimes used in German instead of the previously common "war memorial".

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Location: Wallingford, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

Wallingford War Memorial

1. Wallingford Bridge – Wallingford Castle Meadows loop from Wallingford

2. Benson Lock – Wallingford Bridge loop from Benson

3. Shillingford Bridge – Wallingford Bridge loop from Crowmarsh Gifford

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