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adb41
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 178 Location: Stornoway
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:24 pm Post subject: Memorial to captain of HMS Rawalpindi |
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This plaque, affixed in All Saints Parish Church High Wycombe is in memory of Captain Edward Coverley Kennedy, who was commanding HMS Rawalpindi on 23 November 1939 when that ship was sunk by German warships Deutschland, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. The position of the enemy was relayed to the Royal Navy before the Rawalpindi went down.
There were 12 crewmembers on the Rawalpindi who hailed from the Isle of Lewis, eight of whom perished when she went down. The four others were taken POW - hence the relevance to this forum.
The Rawalpindi's sacrifice was acknowledged by the German navy, but is held to be underrated by the British authorities at the time.
Further information on this event through Wikipedia
The image is supplied through the kind offices of All Saints Parish Church High Wycombe. |
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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The father of Ludovic Kennedy was based at Rosyth and lived in Edinburgh in 1919.
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