Tag: Remembrance

• Bombs on Britain: where the air raids killed

  

  I counted all 61,542 civilians on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Second World War roll for the UK, town by town. 51% of them died outside London, and the story starts with the shelling of Hartlepool in 1914.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, Second World War, Remembrance, First World War, air raids, the Blitz, Zeppelin

• How many names on your war memorial?

  

  I counted the First World War names on 14,119 community memorials in the Imperial War Museums register. A typical village memorial carries 18.3 names for every 1,000 people living there today, and only 36 of 6,108 small places record no dead.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, war memorials, Remembrance, First World War, Thankful Villages, Imperial War Museums