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...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Staffordshire Regimental Museum ,Image: Replica trench at Staffordshire Regimental Museum. The Museum can be found alongside Whittington Barracks, outside of Lichfield. It was formerly the base of the Staffordshire Regiments since 1881– and the current base for the...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Baku, Caspian Sea Image: The seafront at Baku. In January 1918 the War Office authorised a British Mission to be sent to the Caucasus, headed by Major-General Dunsterville. Leaving Baghdad, the Dunsterforce made their way slowly north through Persia, impeded by bad...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
The Trans-Caucasian Railway Image: End of the line, Batumi, 2025. At the time of the British occupation of 1919-20, the rail line ran straight into the town, one line to the docks and one along the main street. The expansion of Batumi began in 1883 with the final...
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