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Cleaning the Memorial in 2003

During the summer of 2003, the Commonwealth War Graves ommission engaged contractors to clean the bronze name panels on the Memorial.

This result in them being much easier to read, and now the names real glow in the sunshine. I took the initial photos for this site before the cleaning started, then some during the cleaning and some afterwards.


Panel 13 before cleaning	Panel 13 being covered with metal cleaner	Panel 13 after cleaning

Panel 1 before cleaning		Panel 1 after cleaning

Blasting the panels on the northern side of the original memorial

Panel 25 before cleaning	Panel 25 after blasting	Panel 25 after polishing