It’s been a while since my last blog, not least because of the steadily increasing number of new war memorials and their casualties that I have been adding to the website. There are now 281 war memorials online consisting of 268 Worcestershire, 4 Gloucestershire, 2 Warwickshire and 7 Shropshire with a total of 13,521 names.
The Shropshire war memorials have been added for a specific reason. Ben Upton, an employee with the British Legion is undertaking the Snowdon Challenge in August 2013 in order to raise funds to have a war memorial commissioned for his local church as they currently only have the names on an A4 piece of paper in a frame. After discovering the Remember the Fallen website he has asked if I would be willing to upload the details of war memorials in his area and research the casualties in return for a donation to support my website from the sponsorship money he raises from the event. If you would like to sponsor this very worthwhile cause, please visit the following link: www.snowdonchallenge2013.com