More plans for ‘Thame Remembers’ Great War project

MORE details of plans for the town’s Thame Remembers project to commemorate the First World War have been revealed, including a search for relatives of those named on local war memorials, and an illuminated ‘living’ memorial of photographs of their living relatives.

Lloyd George unveils the Thame War Memorial in 1921 – captured on film by Pathe News

So far only one family member of those whose names are engraved on the Thame war memorials, has come forward. Soon, all 189 names of Thame men who lost their lives in conflicts will be available on the website, www.thameremembers.org and the idea is that relatives will be given the first option to place one of the specially made crosses on their predecesor’s grave, where ever in the world that may be, whether it’s France, Belgium, the UK, Greece, Italy, Egypt, India, Iraq, Singapore, or Tanzania, as well as ocean graves where crews went down with their ships. Eventually, volunteers who are travelling abroad will be needed to take a cross and place it on an identified war grave and take a photograph for the records.

In the meantime, the names of those listed on the Thame Memorial and details about where this lived and died, are listed on the website: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/Thame.html Anyone who is related to any man listed can contact the Thame Remembers group via the website: http://www.thameremembers.org/contact/