War. Monuments, Statues and Memorials. Post yours.

tombrewer wrote in post #18765385
Anzac memorial in Onslow WA.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2784​3LM _U7A1232 by Tom Brewer, on Flickr

Hi Tom - Sorry for delayed response but you've caught "The going down of the sun"

Ltdave wrote in post #18764914

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a super low resolution image (with some unintentional camera shake) of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial from 16 years ago. shot with an olympus c-4040 (4mp camera?)

Hi Dave. Just how many names on that memorial?

58, 318...

Two of my Vietnam War Memorial shots...

Ray.Petri wrote in post #18839147
Hi Tom - Sorry for delayed response but you've caught "The going down of the sun"

Ray, That was sunrise. If you are looking at my EXIF data, I never changed the time on the camera. Onslow is about 12 hours ahead of US eastern time. The memorial was specifically built to encase the rising sun on Anzac Day.

tombrewer wrote in post #18839538
Ray, That was sunrise. If you are looking at my EXIF data, I never changed the time on the camera. Onslow is about 12 hours ahead of US eastern time. The memorial was specifically built to encase the rising sun on Anzac Day.

Thanks Tom, for the comment.

James Wolfe. 1727-1759. Victor of Quebec.
Overlooking Greenwich Naval College UK.

Royal Air Force monument on Thames embankment near House of Parliament. Taken from the Thames River Bus whilst passing at approx 30 mph. Triple camera shake here - Me, Boat bouncing along on waves and vibrations of the engines.

https://en.wikipedia.o​rg/wiki/Royal_Air_Forc​e_Memorial

Monument to Queen Sunanda Kumariratana at Bang Pa-In, the summer palace of the King of Thailand. The Queen drowned in a tragic accident in 1880. Others on the boat failed to assist her in the river because it was forbidden to touch a member of the royal family.

The Women of WWII memorial.
Situated on Whitehall, London.
https://en.wikipedia.o​rg …the_Women_of_Wo​rld_War_II

Amazing (and sobering) photos on this thread. Here is one from Bloody Lane and I believe a memorial for a Pennsylvanian Division at Antietam National Battlefield

Martyrs Memorial. Dartford, Kent. UK.
Burnt at the stake for their beliefs in 1555.

https://www.dartfordar​chive.org.uk …/magnified/chri​s_wade.htm

Two pictures. Black/White taken Leica M3 c1960. Second colour picture taken 2018 to show 60 years of change. Different lens, focal length and angle. And, different technology
Also inset one of the inscriptions from one face of the memorial.

not sure I should like it!

Gruesome amongst other thoughts.
Tough times indeed

avondale87 wrote in post #18846862
not sure I should like it!

Gruesome amongst other thoughts.
Tough times indeed

Thanks for the Like. Plenty more gruesome history if you look for it, and it wasn't so long ago either. Hangings, beheadings, tied in front of cannons (not the SLR type, either). No war crime trials, no appeals procedures no 'Do Gooders' and no political correctness! Apart from that, one way or another, nothing changes. At least, in the 1700-1800s, for minor crimes us civilised Brits did send our minor offenders on a nice long boat cruise around the other side of the world. Must've made it almost worth nickin' a chicken when you consider the price of a boat cruise.