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    No Lorraine, I'm a bit confused here. You said:

    "As an historian, I trust that personnel who were once stationed on Western Heights will be included."

    Please remember that aside from the Royal Artillery and its predecessors, there was no-one permanently based at the Heights. For infantry the Heights were transit garrison for a few months or years only.

    So what criteria do you apply? Are you referring to Western Heights personnel who fell at Heights, or those who fell after having been moved on having spent time there? If in wartime periods, all such persons these would be included by default within the scope of the memorial.

    As the Heights have never been attacked outside WW2, there is no-one to commemorate outside the wartime scope of the memorial as planned, if the above criteria is applied. Heights personnel who died elsewhere, or not in wartime, would be commemorated elsewhere.

    If you are proposing a general memorial to named men of the Heights, as explained, such a list is impossible to compile because no-one has that information. If only.

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