Admission to all memorials and monuments, some of which are staffed with expert guides, is free.
Memorials will be unveiled on Saturday at Hutton-in-the-Forest near Penrith and at Kingstown in Carlisle.
War memorials in Gloucestershire are being treated with anti-theft liquid in an attempt to protect them.
The vigil was the crowning event of a weeklong series of concerts, parties and memorials.
Councils may also want to consider installing formal war memorials or updating existing memorials.
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Early memorials were almost exclusively built by, and dedicated to, the powerful, historians say.
In more recent centuries, governments paid for public memorials, particularly to honor their war dead.
Some funeral-industry professionals believe these online memorials and virtual grave sites provide a valuable service.
John Rees, Memorials Officer at Wiltshire Council, has been recruited to track down the county's lesser-known memorials.
In Glasgow, school pupils have been uncovering the human stories behind the names on the city's war memorials.
An audit of all the war memorials across Wiltshire is to be carried out to ensure their preservation.
The scheme aims to protect all memorials in the run-up to the 100th anniversary of World War I.
After their deaths, two memorials were carved in marble by a Bosnian refugee and placed where they died.
They cited an arcane provision in Virginia law that prohibits placing Union markings or monuments on Confederate memorials.
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There are thought to be between 5, 000 and 6, 000 memorials in villages, towns and cities across the country.
The new programme can also provide funding for the conservation of war memorials.
Several U.S. airlines, regardless of whether they lost crew, will hold private memorials.
Mr Rees said he thought many county memorials were not currently on record.
Attending funerals and memorials was a fact of life for me growing up.
Her name has been inscribed on civil rights memorials throughout the United States.
Memorials have been a part of the human experience since, well, time immemorial.
Vandals have daubed the word Islam in spray paint on war memorials in Green Park and Hyde Park in London.
The traditional time to visit cemeteries or war memorials is at 3PM local time on Memorial Day, which is Monday.
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Two memorials to the 96 people who died as a result of the Hillsborough tragedy have been unveiled in Liverpool.
Other memorials were planned across the country, according to Xinhua, including soldiers spreading flowers at sea and schoolchildren creating memorials.
Labour's Lord Faulkner of Worcester focused on metal theft from war memorials, describing the situation as "almost out of control".
Mr Salmond said some memorials were in need of an upgrade to get them up to standard for the commemorations.
He condemned theft from war memorials as "repulsive" and said work was being done with police chiefs to tackle the problem.
The ruins of Troy stand on one side, on the other memorials to the men who died in the Gallipoli campaign.
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