No War Memorial

[liverpool annie]

Thought this might be interesting - if you have realatives from Cayton!

The village of Cayton between Scarborough and Filey in North Yorkshire has
no war memorial -  not out of disrespect for the many millions who died in
both wars - but because amazingly of the 43 men of the village who served in
the Great War all returned - this was again repeated in WW2 when all the men
of the village returned after the war 
After WWI the grateful residents of Cayton decided to put up a memorial clock
their the local church!

Annie 

[RuthieB]

Special!  I can't imagine there are many other examples of that!

RuthieB

[liverpool annie]

Hi Ruthie !

Apparently there are 32 other villages in the UK - that didn't suffer the loss of
its menfolk during either war !

Annie 

[RuthieB]

Well, I'm amazed! Maybe one war, but both!!   How fortunate. I wonder if the other villages have commemorated their fortune in the way others commemorated their loss?

RuthieB

[Nick Carver]

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it might be about Memorials that were either destroyed or (incredible as it may seem) simply lost. My great uncle was commemorated on two Memorials - one destroyed in WWII bombing and the other (for the company he worked for) that disappeared. To be fair, of two panels that made up the Memorial, one was lost but sadly my great uncle was on the missing panel.