WW1 memorial photo puts Devon on the map

Over the summer the Memorial Awareness Board (MAB) ran its annual photography competition sponsored by Lodge Brothers.

This year’s theme focused on the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. We invited photographers to capture the beauty of their local First World War memorials.  Local Resident, Annette Marsh from Plymouth, has put Devon on the map with her amazing photograph of WW1 Memorial captured on Dartmoor. With over 200 entrants, Annette is one the final 12 shortlisted to win a £1,000.

The Memorial Awareness Board is an organisation, representing memorial stonemasons and campaigning for sympathetic memorialisation in the UK. Its website, www.rememberforever.org.uk, aims to inform the public and the press alike about their options regarding memorialisation. Whether a loved one is buried or cremated they deserve to be remembered forever and a stone memorial is the best way to accomplish this. The website gives details of all types of stone memorial available from UK memorial masons.

Now in its fifth year, this critically acclaimed competition calls on novices and professional photographers alike, to capture the beauty of stone memorials from the past and the present. This year’s theme highlighted the centenary anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. This years competition sponsors were Lodge Brothers Funeral Directors, a family run business, which has a long history of support for the Memorial Awareness Board.

Chris Lodge, a member of the MAB Executive, said:  “Memorials play an important part in our social history whether they are personal or public. This year’s theme will enable entrants to share their images of family headstones or village cenotaphs, all of which will tell a story and allow us to remember the sacrifice made so by many in the First World War”.

For more information on the Memorial Awareness Board (MAB) and how to enter the competition along with Terms andConditions please visit: www.rememberforever.org.uk

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