Remembrance and the BBC...

[surfdude]

i enjoyed the bit i watched and was surprised they did it from both sides of the war . some of it was very touching . didn't like all the pompous gits putting their faces in it trying to look good

 

[Hover Fly]

Thankful Villages were only recorded in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland were not considered worthy of inclusion for some reason (the mentality still exists)

The list of "thankful villages" was never an official WD/Admiralty/MOD project. The only reason there are none listed in Scotland or Ireland is that there were none.
Some of the 53 or so known are doubtful. There may have been officers or sailors from that village killed, and some killed listed as resident in another place may have had parents or siblings living in the "thankful village":
http://www.hellfirecorner.co.uk/thankful.htm

 

[ufkacbln]

I had to go home to Cambridgeshire a couple of years ago, and decided to combine a cycle tour, trip home, and visit a few churches at teh time.

So I ended up in St Albans.

They have war memorials, but at "Street level"

Many of the streets have small memorials on the side of a house that commemorate the people of that street that died.

I found it a nice moving way of remembrance.