Six months of Rutland Remembers

It’s now six months since Rutland Remembers was launched and a chance to look back with some pride on what the site has achieved. It seems a very long time ago indeed when the three of us sat down in the Lord Nelson in Oakham and sketched out what we wanted the site to show.

Then long discussions with the team at 23ccc on how it should look before a bid went in to the Heritage Lottery Fund, supported by our key partners. Since launch day in May, we’ve had hundreds of contributions from our users, some offering a snippet of extra information, others telling us about soldiers who have hitherto been overlooked.

We have dozens of new photographs and many important documents which have all been posted on to the site. Rutland Remembers has been featured in local newspapers, magazines, radio stations and on television, all helping to spread the word about the project. The Twitter account has almost a thousand followers. And many users have embraced one of the main ideas behind Rutland Remembers by recording visits to gravesides, memorials and churches where soldiers are buried or remembered.

The target is as it was at the start of this project, six months ago – to visit them all by the end of 2018. So to everyone who has made Rutland Remembers what it is today: thank you.