HMS Cricket - Landing Craft Base - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

Inscription on plaque:

HMS CRICKET
COMBINED OPERATIONS AND
LANDING CRAFT BASE
1943 - 1946
TO HONOUR THE MEMORY
OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE LANDING CRAFTS
WHO SAILED FROM ThIS BASE AND GAVE THEIR LIVES
DURING THE D- DAY LANDINGS IN NORMANDY
AND IN LATER SEA BASED OPERATIONS

In June 2004 a memorial to those who served at HMS Cricket was unveiled by Countess Mountbatten in Manor Farm Country Park, near the kiosk at Barnfield.

In 1944 Countess Mountbatten had been a Wren based at HMS Tormentor at Warsash at the mouth of the river - she spoke of how the Solent was so tightly packed with craft "you could have walked dry shod across to the Isle of Wight".

HMS Cricket was the name given to a Royal Navy shore establishment on this part of the river Hamble from 1943 to 1946. Initially it was a Royal Marine landing craft crew training area but was later used as a secret training base for the flotilla of landing craft taking men, tanks and supplies across the channel from Warsash and Hamble.




In the build up to D-day there were some 4000 men attached to HMS Cricket, which had its own roads, services, cinema, medical facilities, and ammunition compounds.


After decommissioning, the many buildings of HMS Cricket were used for temporary post-war accommodation for the civilian population of Southampton.

The memorial is by the cafe in the park .

Date of Dedication: 06/01/2004 Property Permission: Public Access instructions: There is a fee to pay to park here Access times: From: 8:00 AM To: 6:00 PM Website for Waymark: [Web Link] Location of waymark: Manor Farm Country Park Pylands Lane Bursledon, Hampshire United KIngdom Commemoration: Landing Craft Base and personel

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