Roll of honor

Medieval scroll as a model for an honor roll

List of fallen soldiers in the Vietnam War

Arcade in the Australian War Memorial with the Roll of Honor in the form of bronze plaques . They bear the names of those who fell in World War II and are adorned with the typical poppies ( English Remembrance Poppies ).

A list of particularly deserving personalities is referred to as a roll of honor ( AE English Roll of Honor ; BE English Roll of Honor ) . This is done in order to particularly honor or honor them. In the case of living people, the award usually includes the award of a certificate of honor . Outstanding achievements are honored, for example in sports , art , culture , science , business or in the military .

etymology

The term comes from the word honor as well as scroll , the typical book form of antiquity. In the Middle Ages, parchment scrolls  (picture) were mainly used for administrative directories. A similar term is the master role , in particular the troop master role , i.e. the personnel list of a military unit , for example a company .

Nowadays, scrolls of honor are of course hardly any parchment scrolls, often not even lists on paper , but mostly files that can be accessed via the Internet . But there are also Roll of Honors made of stone , glass or metal , especially at military memorials, such as the memorial for those shot at Woeste Hoeve or the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington .

Examples

Examples of honorary roles are:

• Honorary role of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)
• Roll of Honor for the Codebreaker of Bletchley Park
• Honor roll of a war memorial , such as the Australian War Memorial (AWM)  (picture)

Variations

Comparable to honor rolls are honor plaques , honor halls , fame halls ( English Hall of Fame ) or "Ruhmeswege" ( English Walk of Fame ). Examples are:

• Hall of Honor of the National Security Agency (NSA)
• Hall of Fame of German Football
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame
• Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Walk of Fame Europe
• Walk of Fame of Cabaret
• Canada's Walk of Fame
• Surfing Walk of Fame
• Badminton Walk of Fame
• Munich Olympic Walk of Stars

Web links

• Certificate of Honor for Alan Turing in the Bletchley Park Honor Roll
• The Bletchley Park Roll of Honor
• Roll of Honor of the AWM
• NCUK Honor Roll of the Northern Consortium of the United Kingdom , an association of universities in the United Kingdom

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roll of Honor , accessed June 10, 2019.
2. ↑ Bletchley Park Roll of Honor , accessed June 10, 2019.
3. ↑ Roll of Honor of the AWM , accessed June 10, 2019.