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Posted on Tuesday 2nd April
The painstaking process of engraving the names of the UK servicemen and women who were killed in 2012 on duty or through terrorism will begin at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, next week.
Stonemason Nick Hindle, who has engraved hundreds of names over the last 4 years, will start the work, on the Portland Stone of the Armed Forces Memorial, at 9.00 am on Monday, 8 April.
At a special service for the families later in the year, the names of those killed will be read out and dedicated.
The Armed Forces Memorial is the UK's tribute to the men and women killed on duty or from terrorist activity since 1948, and was dedicated in the presence of HM The Queen in 2007.
Stonemason Nick Hindle, who has engraved hundreds of names over the last 4 years, will start the work, on the Portland Stone of the Armed Forces Memorial, at 9.00 am on Monday, 8 April.
At a special service for the families later in the year, the names of those killed will be read out and dedicated.
The Armed Forces Memorial is the UK's tribute to the men and women killed on duty or from terrorist activity since 1948, and was dedicated in the presence of HM The Queen in 2007.
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