User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/More CWGC WWI memorials

Draft notes for: User:Carcharoth/Article incubator/Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing.

A listing of more Commonwealth War Graves Commission World War I memorials to the missing, to be turned into a list similar to the ones for the Western Front of WWI and the list for WWII.

Added to list

• Basra Memorial [1]
• Tower Hill Memorial [2]
• Portsmouth Naval Memorial [3]
• Plymouth Naval Memorial [4]
• Helles Memorial [5]
• Chatham Naval Memorial [6]
• India Gate [7]
• Lone Pine Memorial [8]
• Port Tewfik Memorial (replacement in Heliopolis War Cemetery) [9]
• Tehran Memorial (Tehran War Cemetery) [10]
• Jerusalem Memorial (Jerusalem British War Cemetery) [11]

These are the memorials with 3000+ names listed.

In addition, there are the identical memorials in Kenya (Mombasa and Nairobi) and Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) to the native troops and non-combatant forces who died in the war, numbering 49,572.

Six more to add

• BOMBAY 1914-1918 MEMORIAL, MUMBAI
• DOIRAN MEMORIAL
• HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
• DAR ES SALAAM BRITISH AND INDIAN MEMORIAL
• NAIROBI BRITISH AND INDIAN MEMORIAL
• FREETOWN MEMORIAL

Memorial types

Footnotes and/or article text for:

• Connected memorials (same campaign).
• Naval and maritime memorials
• Single campaign memorials
• National/regional/regimental memorials
• Memorials to labour forces/native troops
• Cremation memorials
• Shipping memorials
• Relocation/concentration/unmaintainable graves memorials
• Destroyed/rebuilt/moved memorials

To be added

• A pair is formed by [12] and [13] for the East Africa Campaign and the missing of the British and Indian forces.

• The Doiran Memorial in Greece ([14]) marks the Salonika Campaign.

• Some memorials are relocation ones, such as the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial and the Karachi 1914-18 Memorial.

Footnote to list entry

• The Bombay 1914-1918 Memorial is another naval memorial, paired with the UK naval manning ports and one for Chinese sailors at Hong Kong (see here). Another naval memorial is Hollybrook Memorial in Hollybrook Cemetery. Grouping the naval memorials together makes sense.

• Another grouping is the memorials to the Royal West African Frontier Force at Freetown, Kumasi, Lagos (moved to Abuja), and Bathurst.

New notes

• A number of memorials are cremation memorials to Indian forces.

• Some memorials are for those lost at sea on troop or buried at sea on hospital ships (e.g. Chatby Memorial and Mikra Memorial). The ones where a named ship is identified can be linked to that.

• Some memorials destroyed and names commemorated elsewhere, such as the Port Tewfik Memorial and the Aden Memorial (see South Arabia during World War I).

• Grouping of four Nigerian memorials (Calabar, Ibadan, Lokoja and Zaria).