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The Royal Naval Division Memorial is a First World War memorial located on Horse Guards Parade in central London, and dedicated to members of the 63rd ...
HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS Excellent is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with a headquarters at HMS Collingwood, although a number of lodger units are resident within the site including the offices of the First Sea Lord.
It became clear that the Royal Navy would not have been able to win the war without the support of the United States. [30] [31] The Royal Navy's losses during the war totalled around 40,000, including 34,600 killed and 5,100 wounded. In addition, there were 1,250 prisoners of war. [32] In 1914, the Royal Navy consisted of three fleets.
The Portsmouth Naval Memorial, sometimes known as Southsea Naval Memorial, is a war memorial in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, on Southsea Common beside Clarence Esplanade, between Clarence Pier and Southsea Castle. The memorial commemorates approximately 25,000 British and Commonwealth sailors who were lost in the World Wars, around 10,000 ...
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial; Parliamentary War Memorial; Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum; Port Sunlight War Memorial; Port Talbot War Memorial; Portland Cenotaph; Portuguese Fireplace; Potters Bar war memorial; Preston Cenotaph; Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph; Quintin and ...
The Royal Naval School was an English school that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by the Royal Naval School Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. lxxxvi). [1] It was a charitable institution, established as a boarding school for the sons of officers in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Many of its pupils achieved ...
The Plymouth Naval Memorial commemorates 7,251 sailors of the World War I and 15,933 of the World War II. [ 1 ] Other memorials in Halifax and Victoria in Canada, Auckland, New Zealand , Mumbai, India , Chittagong, Bangladesh , and Hong Kong commemorate sailors who came from those parts of the Commonwealth .
A war memorial committee was established to organise the town's civic commemorations. The committee decided to erect a memorial at a site near the Town Hall (renamed the Guildhall in 1926 when Portsmouth was granted city status), adjacent to an embankment carrying the railway out of Portsmouth & Southsea railway station.