As at the conclusion of World War I, many casualties of World War 2 had no known grave, and were instead commemorated after the war on ‘Memorials to the Missing‘.
Unlike WW1, however, he highest number of casualties did not occur on the Western Front in France and Belgium. The only new Memorials in France are those at Dunkirk (opened 29 June 1957) and the Normandy Memorial (opened on 6 June 2021
… for a list of the larger WW2 Memorials around the World
World War 2 Memorials Containing Buxton Casualties
Of the men and women who gave their lives in the Second World War, and are named on the Memorials in the Buxton and surrounding area, 21 are “Known Unto God“, in that they have no known grave and are commemorated on 8 WW2 Memorials around the World.
The RAF Memorial at Runnymede contains 8 of these names. No other Memorial contains more than 4 Buxton names. Access to the names on each Memorial can be accessed using the MENU BAR, alongside this link above.
