While we are on the subject of war memorials ...... My husband's uncle, James Scarff was born in Fakenham. He went to HMS Ganges in the mid 1930s and then continued in the Navy up to WWII. His mother and younger sister continued to live in Fakenham until around 1936 when they moved to Mendlesham, Suffolk. James was sent to HMS Vernon (Portsmouth) in 1941 for training purposes and was one of many killed on the 11th March 1941 when a building was hit by German bombers. He is buried in Portsmouth. My question is would he have qualified to appear on a war memorial in his home town (Fakenham or Mendlesham) as he wasn't actually on active service when he died ? He doesn't appear on the Fakenham memorial and I am having difficulty finding details of the Mendlesham one. I can only find mention of the USAAF memorial. The Roll of Honour website doesn't list Mendlesham (sorry - not Norfolk, I know :) ) Thank you Caroline

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 ...... life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Bell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: [NFK] What were the criteria for being on a War Memorial ? > While we are on the subject of war memorials ...... > > My husband's uncle, James Scarff was born in Fakenham. He went to HMS > Ganges > in the mid 1930s and then continued in the Navy up to WWII. His mother and > younger sister continued to live in Fakenham until around 1936 when they > moved to Mendlesham, Suffolk. James was sent to HMS Vernon (Portsmouth) in > 1941 for training purposes and was one of many killed on the 11th March > 1941 > when a building was hit by German bombers. He is buried in Portsmouth. > > My question is would he have qualified to appear on a war memorial in his > home town (Fakenham or Mendlesham) as he wasn't actually on active service > when he died ? He doesn't appear on the Fakenham memorial and I am having > difficulty finding details of the Mendlesham one. I can only find mention > of > the USAAF memorial. The Roll of Honour website doesn't list Mendlesham > (sorry - not Norfolk, I know :) ) > > Thank you > > Caroline > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >