Page 66 - Bugle No. 17 Spring 2021

MIDLANDS
RIFLES
MEMORIALS
AT THE
NATIONAL
MEMORIAL
ARBORETUM
As many Riflemen, serving or retired, will know, the National Memorial Arboretum (NMA) at Alrewas, Staffordshire, contains a central memorial to all those who have fallen
in action since 1945. Engraved on the walls of Portland stone are the names of the members of our antecedent and forming regiments who fell in Korea, Malaya, Aden, Northern Ireland, Iraq and elsewhere. Also engraved are the names of the 62 members of The Rifles who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2007.
All four forming regiments and two of the antecedent regiments also have individual memorials within the extensive grounds of the NMA.
The Royal Green Jackets memorial, a sloping tablet of black Indian granite, was the first installed in 2008. As reported previously on SWIFT, our new Colonel-in-Chief, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, laid a RIFLES wreath there on VJ Day in August 2020.
The memorial to the Durham Light Infantry (DLI), unveiled in 2012, is a larger-than-life-size bronze bugler dressed in the uniform of the Korean War mounted on a plinth of Portland stone
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