Christina Holstein Posted 1 January , 2003 Share Posted 1 January , 2003 Off-hand in Luxembourg I can think of the Boulevard de Verdun and the Boulevard Gen. Pershing. There's also a Rue de Dormans - Luxembourg helped rebuild Dormans (in the Marne) after the war. On the subject of names, it was fashionable after the war to name girls Fochette and Joffrette. I came across a Fochette once on a war memorial. Not seen a Joffrette yet. Christina Holstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky Platteeuw Posted 1 January , 2003 Share Posted 1 January , 2003 According to my friend Aurel there is a Pilkemstreet in...... Hong Kong. Jacky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph J. Whitehead Posted 1 January , 2003 Share Posted 1 January , 2003 I used to live downstate New York and we had a number of streets named Foch Boulevard, Pershing Place, etc. It seems to have been a common occurrence in many towns and villages. I live in a small village named after the Marquis de lafayette from the Revolution. Ralph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Marshall Posted 6 January , 2003 Share Posted 6 January , 2003 Jellicoe Avenue Kitchener Avenue Admiral Beatty publice house - now demolished Beaumont Drive Fergusson Avenue and Colyer Road (Colyer Fergusson V.C.) All Gravesend and Northfleet Regards Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 6 January , 2003 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2003 Just remembered a couple myself - Wulstan Close and Tempest Avenue in Potters Bar. Lieut. Wulstan Tempest shot down the L31 which crashed on Potters Bar, 2:10:16. Both streets are on what was once the crash site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Fisher Posted 6 January , 2003 Share Posted 6 January , 2003 My mother's cousin, shot down in the second world war, was named Jack La Bassee Tomkinson; up the road from you, Tom, in sunny Dudley are Mons Rd, Kitchener Rd, French Rd, Haig Rd, Verdun Crescent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 7 January , 2003 Share Posted 7 January , 2003 As a new member reviewing these postings I see that the subject has already stretched beyond the UK's coasts, so can I add the following which are not UK, but nevertheless of WWI interest (WF, Gallipoli & Palestine). Streets in Tel Aviv's Yad Eliahu district: Rehov Lohame Gallipoli, which translates as Gallipoli Fighters Street and in this case refers to Capt. Joseph Trumpeldor and the Zion Mule Corps. Plus nearby streets named after Gen. Sir John Monash Lieut-Col J. H. Patterson DSO Lieut-Comm J. C. Wedgwood DSO, RNVR Lieut-Col E. L. Margolin DSO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 7 January , 2003 Share Posted 7 January , 2003 Eighteen Pounder Lane - near Hastings Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Hi, Breathing new life into an old thread. Comber, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. de Wind Drive, named obviously enough after the VC winner from the town. The estate that de Wind Drive leads into is known locally as Hill 60, although this is not an official title. The estate, old and a past it's prime is in the process of being cleared and redeveloped. In Belfast, just off the Cregagh Road, there is a cluster of streets named, Picardy Avenue, Bapaume Avenue, Hamel Drive, Thiepval Avenue, and Albert Drive. These were (I am told by a woman who grew up there, daughter of a veteran survivor), built for the benefit of returning soldiers. I am almost certain that there will be more across Northern Ireland. Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Not quite the same, but in Whitchurch Cardiff there`s an Earl Haig Memorial Club for local men to enjoy a pint of Brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy.72 Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Mons Road in Lincoln (already mentioned in another post) is behind the old Lincolnshire Regiment barracks on Burton Road. As an interesting addition, the first tank was tested on fields at the bottom of Burton Road, about one mile from Mons Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick D Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 In Southwick, Sunderland there are a couple of street names that survived a policy of re-naming, due to a 'German' connection. There are- Goschen Street & Schimmel Street. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy.72 Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 There is also a Somme Road in Singapore (I know it's not UK but interesting nonetheless) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris basey Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Norwich has: Camp Road and Cavalry Street associated with local barracks Douglas Haig Road and Haig Close. Of course there is a Cavell Road in the city and there are around 100 roads/street/courts/close throughout the world named after Edith Cavell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMixMonkey Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 There's an Arras Road near the old Suffolk Regiment barracks in Bury St Edmunds. Couldn't find anything else locally other than several references to the Battle of Minden, but that's not exactly WW1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Doyle Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Wilfred Owen Drive in Birkenhead (on the site of the old Birkenhead Insititute. Owen was a student in the institute, but not at this site - it relocated later in the 20th C. Cheers Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 This is a list of streets that I have photographs of the street name signs that I posted in another thread. Apologies that not all are WWI, but I've not left them out because some may be of interest to others. Those not from WWI are marked with an *. *Capt. Richard Annand VC - Annand Road, Gilesgate, Durham *Pilot Officer Cyril Barton VC - Barton Court, Whitkirk, Leeds (in an estate where all streets are named after WWII Bomber Pilots) Brig-Gen Roland Bradford VC, MC - Bradford Crescent, Gilesgate, Durham (named after Roland and not his brother George who won the VC at Zeebrugge 23/04/1918. Roland was DLI and George RN) Pte William Buckingham VC - Buckingham Road, Countesthorpe, Leicester Maj Edward Cooper VC - Cooper Square, Gilesgate, Durham 2Lt Edmund de Wind VC - de Wind Drive, Comber, Co. Down, Northern Ireland *Fus Dennis Donnini VC - Donnini Place, Gilesgate, Durham *Flying Officer Donald Garland VC - Garland Drive, Whitkirk, Leeds *Wg/Cdr Guy Gibson VC DSO* DFC* - Gibson Drive, Whitkirk, Leeds FM Viscount Gort VC GCB CBE DSO** MVO MC - Gort Place, Gilesgate, Durham, (also Lord Gort Pub - now closed) Captain Cyril Gourley VC MM - Gourley's Lane, West Kirby, Wirral *Sgt Thomas Gray VC - Gray Court, Whitkirk, Leeds CSM William Gregg VC DCM MM - Gregg Avenue, Heanor, Derbyshire Pte Michael Heaviside VC - Heaviside Place, Gilesgate, Durham Sgt Harold Jackson VC - Jackson Drive, Kirton Lincolnshire Capt Thomas Maufe VC - Maufe Way, Ilkley, West Yorkshire Lt Donald MacKintosh VC - Mackintosh Court, Gilesgate, Durham Sgt William McNally VC MM* - McNally Place, Gilesgate, Durham *Wg/Cdr John Nettleton VC - Nettleton Court, Whitkirk Leeds Sgt John Ormsby VC MM - John Ormsby VC Way, Shawcross, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire *Pte Adam Wakenshaw VC - Wakenshaw Road, Gilesgate, Durham Pte Horace Waller VC - Horace Waller VC Parade - Shawcross, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire (qv) Pte Thomas Young VC - Young Street, Gilesgate, Durham Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geoff501 Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Messines Road, Wellington, NZ. Must be a Plug Street somewhere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camserbat Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 There is a 9th of April (Battle of the Lys) Street next to the army barracks in Tavira, Portugal. Also a Combatants of the Great War Street and a Lieutenant Couto Street, I am more than willing to pop over and take a photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andypepper Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 In Catford, SE London the Canadian Forestry Corps was based in Berlin Road. The day after the Armistice it was renamed Canadian Avenue. Nice idea about 18 pounder lane but actually the name goes back much further ( some of my dim and distant lived there in 1851) and comes from 18 Pounder Farm, itself a corruption of 18 pounds a year (rent). andyp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Marshall Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 QUOTE (Phil_B @ Jul 29 2008, 10:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not quite the same, but in Whitchurch Cardiff there`s an Earl Haig Memorial Club for local men to enjoy a pint of Brains. If this place has a cemetery over the road from it, the cemetery has the grave of Charles Ward VC in it. Cheers, Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchester terrier Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 In Leicester off Uppingham Rd is, Kitchener Rd leading to : Gough Rd Smith Dorrien Rd French Rd Beatty Rd and Beatty Ave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 29 July , 2008 Share Posted 29 July , 2008 Jeudwine Close in Liverpool commemorates the much-loved GOC of 55th West Lancs Division. Daggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John(txic) Posted 30 July , 2008 Share Posted 30 July , 2008 Just over the border from you, on the Kates Hill estate in Dudley, are Arras Road and Mons Hill. And if you are brave enough to go into West Bromwich, two of the tower blocks are jellicoe House and Beatty House. Unusual, those latter two: presumably built in the '50/'60s, so a strange choice of names for that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heid the Ba Posted 30 July , 2008 Share Posted 30 July , 2008 Verdun Square in Dumfries. I also knew a lady called "Estaires" which was where here father spent much of the war. She hated the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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