Merchant Navy Memorials is a website which is dedicated to two Merchant Navy War Memorials.
Merchant Navy War Memorial, Arromanches, Normandy, France.
This Merchant Navy War Memorial, funded by the Normandy Merchant Navy Memorial Trust was unveiled on the 6th June 2003. In Remembrance of the Merchant Navy sailors who were killed in the D-Day Landings in Normandy during 'Operation Neptune' which started on 6th June 1944 and lasted for a further 3 months.
This section will give information and also will help visitors to find the site if they wish to lay a floral tribute.
Merchant Navy War Memorial, Dover, Kent, England.
This new Merchant Navy War Memorial was unveiled in Dover on the 3rd September 2008 by Mr Winston Churchill, the Grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, the Second World War (1939 to 1945) Prime Minister.
Funded by the Dover & District Merchant Navy Memorial Fund it consists of a statue of a World War Two Merchant Navy sailor, 2 metres 80 cm. in height and mounted on Cornish granite on a site which faces the entrance to the harbour in Marine Parade Gardens, Marine Parade, Dover.
Donations to the Dover & District Merchant Navy Fund are still required for the upkeep, security and preservation of this Memorial in Remembrance of those sailors who lost their lives at sea in the Second World War.
The sea is their grave, no headstone to mark their passing.
Please make your cheques payable to the:-
"Dover & District Merchant Navy Memorial Fund"
and please send your donation to the Fund Treasurer: Mr Tim Brant (M.N. Rtd)
9, Saxon Way, Caistor, Market Rasen, Lincs LN7 6SG.
All donations gratefully received will be acknowledged.
Please feel free to peruse this site, if you have any comments or suggestions please send via email.
Forthcoming Events:-
Merchant Navy Memorial Plaque at Arromanches, Normandy, France.
A wreath-laying Memorial Service will be held on Monday 6th June 2011 at 3pm at this War Memorial.
Dover Merchant Navy War Memorial, Marine Parade, Dover, Kent, England.
Annual Merchant Navy Day Service will again take place on Friday 2nd September 2011 at the Dover Town Hall, Biggin Street, Dover..
Doors open at 10:00am. Service starts at 10:25am.
At 12:30pm to follow the above Service, there will be a Service of Remembrance and wreath laying ceremony at the Dover Merchant Navy War Memorial on Marine Parade Gardens, Dover Seafront.
All are welcome.
M.N. War Memorial Trinity Gardens, Tower Hill, London EC3N, England.
Details from www.mna.org
Sunday 4th September 2011. Start Time: 12:30 hours.
Venue: Merchant Navy Memorial, Trinity Square Gardens, Tower Hill, London EC3N 4AA.
Click on the link for a list of all memorials (and addresses).
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