Database lists Royal Mail war dead

[TrueBlueTerrier]

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM ... G9kWAXlC3Q

The first full register of hundreds of war memorials honouring the sacrifices of Royal Mail workers who died during the First and Second World Wars has been published.

After a year of research by historians, more than 300 memorials across the UK have been listed online for the first time.

The Royal Mail said the number of memorials reflected the heavy involvement in each war by employees of the then General Post Office.

An estimated 85,000 GPO employees fought in the Great War and 8,500 lost their lives, with more than 12,000 employees fighting with the Post Office Rifles, a regiment whose members were awarded 40 gallantry medals.

Chris Taft, curator at the British Postal Museum and Archive said: "Identifying and recording Royal Mail's war memorials had brought home the terrible impact that the First and Second World Wars had on communities.

"Some memorials list the names of more than a hundred people from just one office who were killed in battle. The memorial that was placed in Birmingham General Post Office, for example, listed the names of 134 people. Losing that many colleagues over such a short time was just as devastating then as it would be to us now.

"It is only when you gather this information together that you can really imagine the effect that these conflicts must have had."

The database lists an array of monuments, from traditional bronze statues and stained glass windows to scrolls of honour and large hillside chalk images, and can be accessed at www.postalheritage.org.uk/memorials.

[Big Daz]

My office is on there.

[Stormproof]

My towns memorial is on there aswell