Military in England

Discover 124 military in England.

Glenn Miller Memorial

Northamptonshire, England

Glenn Miller Memorial at King's Cliffe

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

Polish graves at Newark Cemetery.

Newark-on-Trent, England

Polish War Graves of Newark Cemetery

The final resting place of hundreds of Polish airmen who died fighting the Nazis in Britain.

Tyne and Wear, England

The Red House

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

The statue in its current location at Rufford.

Newark, England

The Oil Patch Warrior

A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

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Churchill MKII Tank slowly being overtaken by nature.

Storrington, England

South Downs WWII Churchill Tank

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

Street sign and plaque.

Nottingham, England

Standard Hill

The English Civil War began right here in 1642.

The mark here is across the left cheek and the brow.

Lichfield, England

Damaged Faces of Lichfield Cathedral

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

Signs to the offices that were once in the tunnels.

London, England

Down Street Underground Station

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

Tilbury Fort drawbridges.

Tilbury, England

Tilbury Fort

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

Grain Tower.

Medway, England

Grain Tower Battery

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

Armada Beacon

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

Bevin Boys Memorial.

Staffordshire, England

Bevin Boys Memorial

A long-overdue monument to the forgotten British men drafted into the coal mines during World War II.

Oxfordshire, England

'The Nuba Survival'

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

Mahatma Gandhi (Fredda Brilliant, 1968).

London, England

Peace Garden at Tavistock Square

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

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Vampire.

Wisbech, England

Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum

Peek inside restored planes at this off-the-beaten-path collection of aviation archaeology.

The old Martins Bank in Liverpool.

Liverpool, England

Martins Bank Building

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.