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The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square Gardens, on Tower Hill in London, England.The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second, commemorate civilian, merchant seafarers and fishermen who were killed as a result of enemy action and have no known grave.
The Tower Hill Memorial in London is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials commemorating 36,087 civilian merchant seamen who were lost at sea in the First and Second World Wars. During the First World War, 3,305 merchant ships were sunk with a total of around 17,000 crew and personnel lost.
English: Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial to merchant seamen lost at sea during the world wars, ... London. Date: 14 December 2015, 10:00:48: Source: Own work:
Chinese merchant seamen memorial, Liverpool's Pier Head. In the 2010s, Liverpool MPs Luciana Berger and Stephen Twigg raised the issue of the deportations with the Home Office, but were told by the Conservative government's ministers that no forcible repatriations had taken place. [9]
A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country.On merchant vessels, seafarers of various ranks and sometimes members of maritime trade unions are required by the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) [1] to carry Merchant Mariner's Documents.
Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. The Norwegian government now came forward with a cable that stated that the merchant fleet was to be administered jointly from London and New York. This was a surprise for the ...
London is set to have its first memorial to victims of transatlantic slavery, with the mayor's office announcing on Friday the design of a long-awaited monument seen by advocates as a step towards ...
Charles Algernon Fryatt (2 December 1872 – 27 July 1916) was a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels , was captured by the Germans off occupied Belgium in 1916, Captain Fryatt was court-martialled under German military law and ...