1-6 of 6 results for subject:Monuments
Librarians' tools
- Search time
- 0.238 seconds
- Solr query time
- 0.008 seconds
- Search query
- subject:Monuments
- We searched for
- subject_t:Monuments OR subject_t:Memorials OR subject_ses:92075
Type
House
Session
Year
Department
Member
More
Primary member
More
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
Anthony Dykes, who came from Harworth, a mining village in my constituency, was murdered on 5 April 1979. His parents, Fred and Kathleen Dykes, are two of the finest people I have ever met and represent everything that is good about my community and this country. Other grieving parents have specific memorials. For Fred and Kathleen’s son and others who were killed or murdered on duty in Northern Ireland, there is no such memorial. Is it not now time that, as with other conflicts, there is a specific memorial for those who served our country and lost their lives in the conflict in Northern Ireland?
Anthony Dykes, who came from Harworth, a mining village in my constituency, was murdered on 5 April 1979. His parents, Fred and Kathleen Dykes, are two of the finest people I have ever met and represent everything that is good about my community and this country. Other grieving parents have specific memorials. For Fred and Kathleen’s son and others who were killed or murdered on duty in Northern Ireland, there is no such memorial. Is it not now time that, as with other conflicts, there is a specific memorial for those who served our country and lost their lives in the conflict in Northern Ireland?
I understand and empathise with the hon. Gentleman and his constituents. In fact, as I visited the former Massereene Army barracks in Northern Ireland last week, I paused to pay my respects at a local memorial to two former Army engineers who were killed in 2009. There are many such memorials to individual acts of heroism or tragedy scattered not just
across Northern Ireland, but around the rest of this country. Those commemorate individual actions and tragedies. The national memorial is the one in Staffordshire, and we should not underestimate its importance or value—it having been opened by Her Majesty the Queen and recording the names of everybody who has been killed on service in Northern Ireland and other conflicts.
If the Government will make it its policy to build a national memorial to British service personnel killed on service in Northern Ireland.
If the Government will make it its policy to build a national memorial to British service personnel killed on service in Northern Ireland.
May I start by paying tribute to my predecessor in this role, my hon. Friend the Member for North West Cambridgeshire (Mr Vara), who has been typically generous and helpful with his time and efforts during the handover?
I am sure that everyone on both sides of the House will agree that we all owe a vast debt of gratitude to the heroism and bravery of British servicemen and women who were killed upholding the rule of law in Northern Ireland. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten. Within the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire sits the armed forces memorial. Rightly, it includes the names of every member of the armed forces killed while serving in Northern Ireland, as a permanent reminder of their bravery and sacrifice.
That this House welcomes the project launched by the Evacuees Reunion Association to have a national memorial to the British evacuation of children from the towns and cities threatened by enemy bombing during the Second World War; notes that the Association is an established national charity with members scattered all over the world; further notes that there is currently no such memorial in the UK, unlike in other countries; and calls on the government to work with the Association on this important project.
That this House welcomes the project launched by the Evacuees Reunion Association to have a national memorial to the British evacuation of children from the towns and cities threatened by enemy bombing during the Second World War; notes that the Association is an established national charity with members scattered all...