The Norfolk Dead

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THE NORFOLK DEAD

The First World War changed Norfolk forever. it took tens of thousands of its sons away to the killing fields of France. Thousands of others were called to die elsewhere in the world, most famously the Sandringham Pals, who were wiped out at Suvla Bay in modern Turkey.

Out of all Norfolk's 700-odd parishes, only one got back all the boys it sent to the War - Ovington, near Watton. In every other parish, memorials remain to remember the dead.

This group is for images of the ways that World War One, and earlier wars like the Boer War and the Crimean War, touched the county of Norfolk. It is a way of remembering the boys, and girls, who did not come home. It is not intended to be a record of Norfolk War Memorials, although these are not disallowed; but rather better would be images of the memorials of individuals, Flanders crosses, souvenirs, ephemera, photographs, iconic resonances, details of a wider picture, just as every life lost was a precious detail.

I think that World War Two would be best left to a different group. There are still people alive who can recall the Second World War, but all that is left to us of the Great War and its predecessors is what we can find and photograph.