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BARKING
WAR MEMORIAL
Update: 1 Aug 2001
Christine Patient informs us of the latest
news about the Memorial. The Citizen, Barking's local newspaper, includes information
about the rededication ceremony on 4 August.
The First World War
memorial in Barking Park, Longbridge Road, is to be returned to its former glory by
Barking and Dagenham Council and will be rededicated on August 4 at 11am. An open
invitation to the ceremony is extended to all.
As the project comes
to an end, Christine Patient extends her thanks to all for their support.
This a special appeal sent in
by Christine Patient, the Project Co-ordinator at the Barking & Dagenham Branch.
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I well remember as a little girl going to
Barking Park, and one of the things to see was the War Memorial, together with the names
of those who fell during the Great Wars surrounded, as it is today, by flowers beds and
trees. Today's visitors will wonder why it stands there with none of the names carved on
it's surface.
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Barking
War Memorial
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Over time the
War Memorial in Barking Park, Barking, Essex, has suffered considerably from weather
damage and vandalism and the names are no longer displayed, the Memorial stands blank.
Upon investigation it was found to our dismay that Barking Council's original records
concerning those remembered on the Memorial, have been lost.
Can you help?
Do any of you have any
readable pictures of the Memorial?
Would a family member have
been remembered on it?
Unfortunately, Barking
Council's records were destroyed some years ago, and from all other sources available a
complete new cannot be compiled. So it is up to you, dig deep through your albums of old
photos, have a trip down memory lane, and maybe find us a picture or two.
Local residents and relatives
have, for a number of years, been campaigning to have all the names previously on the
memorial put on bronze plates inside Central Library, Barking.
But unless we can account for
all those person's originally named on the war memorial, these will never again be
displayed, as it would not be right or proper for any to be missed.
This appeal to you is the last
hope, the information is out there somewhere waiting to be rediscovered, perhaps by you.
The inscription on the
Memorial reads:
The Honoured Dead
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
In gratitude to all who
served
and in honour of the men of
Barking who fell in the Great
Wars. They gave themselves
for freedom's cause.
Their memory never dies.
If you have any information which could help please write to:
Christine Patient, 33 Victoria
Road, Barking, Essex IG1 8PY
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