by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Tbilisi Image: The old town, Tbilisi, 2025. Morgan Philips Price, a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian sends a postcard to Anna Maria Philips dated 13 March 1917. “Just a line to say I am well. Most exciting times. I knew this was coming sooner or later but did...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Khariton Akhvlediani Museum of Adjara Image: Bird display in the museum. This museum in Batumi dates back to 1908, originally founded as a children’s museum by a group of school teachers. In 2005 it was renamed after Khariton Akhvlediani, a scientist and former...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Commonwealth Graves site, Batumi Image: Detail of the memorial wall at Batumi. The inspiration for this project was the discovery of the names of young soldiers from the area in the UK I grew up in, the Black Country and Birmingham, who were buried in Batumi, Tbilisi...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Commonwealth Graves site, Tbilisi Image: Major Jono Rilling, Flight Sergeant Matt Searle with Commander Steve Quantrill, Royal Navy, British Defence Attaché to Georgia, Armenia, at the British Military Cemetery, Tbilisi, 2025. There have been British graves here since...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Chattri Indian Memorial, Brighton Image: Annual Indian Memorial Service, Chattri war memorial. During the First World War injured Indian soldiers were hospitalised in the Royal Pavilion, Dome and Corn Exchange in Brighton. There were over one and a half million Indian...
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