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john burnett
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject: Scottish Fisheries Museum Anstruther |
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Thanks to Mrs Aase Goldsmith, Peter Goldsmith, Peter McIntosh, Ken Wilkie and Simon Hayhow for obtaining this photo and the text. A number of things made photographing this memorial extremely "challenging".
(Logo) –
THE MERCHANT NAVY MEMORIAL TRUST SCOTLAND
(text)
This tablet was presented by
THE MERCHANT NAVY MEMORIAL TRUST SCOTLAND
Patron HRH The Princess Royal
and unveiled by
SIR MENZIES CAMPBELL CBE QC MP
president of the Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust
on 12th April 2011
(text on left)
This memorial tablet is a tribute to all
fishermen and whalers from Scotland
who died on active service whilst
attached to the Royal Navy,
the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
and the Royal naval Reserve
during both World Wars.
(text on right)
In rememberance of those who
died in the pursuit of their
trade in times of peace
LEST WE FORGET
“They that go down to the sea in ships,
that do business in great waters”
Psalm 107 verse 10
(bottom text) (note: // = line change)
The centre piece is a depiction of the Memorial on The Shore, Leith //
and which was unveiled by HRH The Princess Royal on the 16th November 2010. //
It commemorates the loss of more than 6,500 Merchant Navy personnel from Scotland // who gave their lives in World Wars I & II, all other previous and subsequent // theatres of conflict and in peace time service along the trade routes of the world. |
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