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8 SCREEN WALLS 17 • Where conditions prevent the marking of individual graves, screen walls are placed to commemorate individuals by name. There are over 50 of these in the UK and Ireland. • Casualties who were cremated are also commemorated on these walls • Casualties whose graves are no longer maintainable, are also commemorated here 18 17 SCREEN WALL AT GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY, DUBLIN 18 SCREEN WALL AT SOUTH EALING CEMETERY, LONDON 19 SCREEN WALL AT YARDLEY CEMETERY, BIRMINGHAM WEST MIDLANDS 19

9 MEMORIALS 20 Over 130,000 Commonwealth servicemen and women with no known grave are commemorated on our memorials to the missing across the UK. The main memorials are: • Brookwood Memorial 1914–1918 • Brookwood Memorial 1939–1945 • Chatham Naval Memorial • Hollybrook Memorial • Lee-on-Solent Memorial • Liverpool Naval Memorial • Lowestoft Memorial • Plymouth Naval Memorial • Portsmouth Naval Memorial • Runnymede Air Forces Memorial • Tower Hill Memorial 20 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVON 21 RUNNYMEDE AIR FORCES MEMORIAL, SURREY 22 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON 21 22

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