WELCOME TO
THE ODIHAM WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT
The Odiham Society and the Royal British Legion worked together on a project to identify as fully as possible those named on our local War Memorial and to find more about their social and military history.
Over the years, the original Portland stone in which these names were engraved deteriorated considerably, mainly due to weathering and traffic pollution.
At the end of 1999, these commemorative tablets were replaced with sturdier, engraved granite, but unfortunately, not always with accurate details due to the inability to read some of the originals. Most of those inscriptions gave forename initials and surname with regiment, unit or service, so correct identification is proving difficult in many cases.
We hope that this will stir memories and that you will get in touch with our Executive Archivist at archives@odiham-society.org with more background information about these men and women and their families before and during the war years.
BEGIN YOUR SEARCH
The Project Group
Our project group, initially Sue Smith, Barbara Igra, Simon Lloyd and Christopher Wallace and later Joe French and John Champion, began researching military and census records, obituaries in newspapers, etc. The considerable research undertaken by Lt Col (Ret) Mike Reggler prior to the Odiham Society project must also be acknowledged here.
