Town memorials.

Are interesting in what they suggest of different national character. Travelling through France it was clear that the memorials were more prominent around the old battlefields. Frence memorials also depict 'France' as the object of the soldiers sacrifice, something much less common on British memorials (I can't remember one with 'Brittania' as the main subject). The personal bouquets and memorials on the French town memorials were also striking.

A selection for you ...

Bapaume:

 A cotswolds (UK) memorial - with St George slaying a dragon. Always good at the moment to remember St George was a Syrian.

 Deal in Kent, a town very linked to military service over many centuries:

And back to France to finish - a memorial of the Franco Prussian War (The Prequel to WW1):