Naval Memorial - Plymouth
N 50° 21.935 W 004° 08.533
30U E 418764 N 5579902
Naval Memorial on Plymouth Hoe overlooking Plymouth Sound.
Waymark Code: WMBNTY
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/07/2011
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The plaque, on the south side of the memorial, reads:
"In honour of the Navy and to the abiding memory of these Ranks and Ratings of this Port who laid down their lives in the defence of the Empire and have no other grave than the sea and their comrades of Australia, South Africa, Newfoundland, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Fiji, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Kenya, Malaya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Burma, whose names are here recorded."
Following the Great War (1914-18), the Imperial War Graves Commission, as it was then known, was asked to find an appropriate way of commemorating the men who had died in the War but who had no known graves. This was relatively easy with soldiers, it was decided, as they could be remembered by memorials erected on land near where they fell. However, for the Royal Navy, whose deaths occurred at sea, this posed a problem. It was solved by constructing a similar memorial in each of the three ports from which the Royal Navy's ships were manned -- Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. The design would be of a unique naval form and each would serve as a marker for shipping.
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