War Memorials Trust
 

Our people

War Memorials Trust introduces those involved with running the charity and those who fill the honorary positions and lend their support to the Trust’s work.

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Winston S Churchill

Winston S ChurchillWar Memorials Trust sadly lost its President and Trustee Winston S Churchill who passed away on 2nd March 2010. Instrumental in the early days of the charity, Mr Churchill’s contribution was vital to the Trust becoming the focal point for war memorial conservation.

We will greatly miss his leadership and support but will strive to fulfill the ambition he shared with so many others to protect and conserve the nation’s war memorials.

 

 

Founder

The Trust's recognised Founder is Ian Davidson. Mr Davidson, a former Royal Marine campaigned vigorously throughout the 1990’s for better care to be taken of the nation’s war memorial heritage.  His appearance on the Jimmy Young BBC Radio 2 show on 29th October 1996 gave him the opportunity to promote his desire to preserve war memorials.  He was also heavily involved in a campaign to restore the Aldershot memorial to its full glory after vandals had damaged it.

As Winston S Churchill has described “in the Spring of 1997, a buzz went round the Smoking Room and Tea Rooms of the House of Commons that an ex-Royal Marine, by the name of Ian Davidson, was coming to one of the Committee Rooms to report on the ‘scandal’ of Britain’s war memorials.”  This meeting was one of many that saw Mr Davidson’s idea develop into a fully fledged charity that was registered on 7th May 1997.  Mr Davidson was recognised as the Founder with others also taking on positions of responsibility.

Mr Davidson spent the next few years with the charity acting as a freelance campaigner on war memorial issues.  He travelled the country visiting war memorials and drawing attention to those in a poor state of repair.  In 2000 he and the charity parted company with Mr Davidson moving on to be involved with Friends of the Laurel and Exercise Tiger.