Thank you - this is all very interesting and, I am sure, a matter of great debate at the time and also for some, a very personal undertaking to 'get it right' ! As someone who was born after the war, I have little comprehension about local organisations and how they kept track of who was serving in the forces etc and casualty figures etc - obviously it was kept track of but probably in numerous different ways varying from village to village etc A lot to think about and probably to read up about :) Thank you again Caroline -----Original Message----- From: David Tennant Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NFK] What were the criteria for being on a War Memorial ? I think the British Legion was also involved. As an 11 or 12 year old ,I recall accompanying my father, who was the Secretary of the local Legion, to the Church and Chapel in the Village , Belton, where we lived. I well remember him, with my assistance, taking a rubbing of the decorative borders of the WW1 plaques and these were then dispatched to the manufacture, presumably with a list of names, so that the WW2 memorials could be produced. My father was also a parish Councillor so it may have been a joint exercise. The Parish Council if involved would surely have taken minutes as would have the Legion. Question is : are these still available? David On 09/04/2014 6:27 AM, elizabeth howard wrote: > Hi, I think we are too far away from the events > and > the times to know how and indeed who picked the names for the public war > memorials . The WW1 names for Mendlesham are online but I don`t see the > WW2 > names......but perhaps an email to the parish council would help ? it > is > quite possible that the men are on more than one memorial ... I think > there > was no question of whether or not they were eligible by some convoluted > system of box ticking ...if they were of the village they got on the > memorial ...... > > > > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think most must have been local / village / parish decisions. Some memorials have a section for those "who gave their lives" and also a section for "those who served". Lots of service personnel are (rightly) remembered on more than one memorial - possibly the town / village where they lived, the one where they were born, the Church they attended, the place they worked before enlisting, the place they died - as well as regimental rolls of honour in regimental chapels or museums. Enid