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Below is the effigy of George Augustus Selwyn who was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1868 and then Bishop of Lichfield from 1868 to his death in 1878:
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Francis Chantrey’s early 19th century sculpture of two girls called “The Sleeping Children” sits at the end of the south aisle in Lichfield Cathedral:
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A shot showing the magnificent detail of Lichfield Cathedral’s front facade:
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A little milky sunshine illuminating Lichfield Cathedral:
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The magnificent Lichfield Cathedral with it’s famous three spires and ornate front facade:
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National Memorial Arboretum 3
The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire first opened in 2001 and it contains more than 370 memorials. Below are images of some of those that caught my eye.
The 49th West Riding Infantry Division saw active service in Norway and Iceland during WW2, where they earned the nickname of the “Polar Bears”, hence the memorial below:
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment earned their nickname of “The Tigers” in recognition of their active service in India in the early 19th century:
The Lion memorial below (rising out of the flood water) is that of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment known as the “Lions of England”:
Below are a group of memorials dedicated to the Cavalry Regiments of the British Army:
Below is the striking Naval Service Memorial:
Below is the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Memorial:
The Royal Air Forces Association memorial below is dedicated not only to the RAF, but to all Commonwealth air forces:
Below is a slow vertical panning shot depicting The Merchant Navy Convoy Wood, dedicated to the 46,000 British merchant seafarers and fishermen lost in conflict during the 20th Century:
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National Memorial Arboretum 2
This second post from the National Memorial Arboretum shows more images of the central Armed Forces Monument.
None of the water in these images should be there – it’s the result of recent and persistent heavy rain that caused severe local flooding. This did give me some interesting photographic opportunities though.
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National Memorial Arboretum 1
We visited the National Memorial Arboretum the week after Remembrance Sunday. This first post concentrates on the main Armed Forces Memorial which commemorates the men and women of the British Armed Forces who have been killed whilst on duty, died in operational theatre or been targeted by terrorists since the end of the Second World War.
Britain has been involved in over 50 military operations and conflicts since 1948 and there are over 16,000 names on this memorial, with space for another 16,000.
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Lichfield Cathedral is home to the Staffordshire Regimental Chapel with its magnificent display of old colours and battle honours from the Crimean War, Second Sikh War, Second Burmese War, Persian War, Indian Mutiny, Zulu War and both World Wars:
The lineage of regiments serving in the British army can be quite long and involved with various reorganisations and re-namings taking place overtime. Pre-1751 regiments were known after their founding Colonel, after that each regiment was given a number and in 1782 these were formally associated with an individual county. For example, “Colonel Lillingston’s Regiment” founded in 1705 became the 38th regiment of foot in 1751 and the “1st Staffordshire’s” in 1782. In that year there was a second regiment associated with the county as well – the “2nd Staffordshire’s” (or 64th regiment of foot founded in 1756). In 1793 the 80th regiment of foot or “Staffordshire Volunteers” were founded and in 1824 the 98th regiment of foot known as the “Prince of Wales’s”.
The Cardwell Reforms of 1881 saw each regiment associated with a geographical location and comprising two battalions. So for Staffordshire this meant that the 38th and 80th regiments of foot were amalgamated into the “South Staffordshire Regiment” and the 64th and 98th regiments of foot were formed into the “Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire) Regiment”. The latter had its name changed to the “North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s)” in 1921. In 1959 these were combined into the “Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s)” and in 2007 brought together with the “Cheshire Regiment”, “Worcestershire Regiment” and “Sherwood Foresters” into the “Mercian Regiment”.
Although I wasn’t born in Staffordshire (I’m a Cheshire lad) my parents were, and most of my remaining extended family still live in that County. My great-grandfather, Bartholomew Shryhane, served in the North Staffordshire Regiment during the First World War. Seeing action at Gallipoli, he reached the rank of Sergeant, before being discharged to Z Class Army Reserve on 11th November 1919. As a survivor of the Great War, I guess you could argue that he was one of the lucky ones……..although I can’t imagine that many soldiers returning home from that conflict would have seen it that way.
This is my last post on Lichfield Cathedral……it seems like a fitting place to end.
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Choir practice at Lichfield Cathedral:
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