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Author: Billy McGee (Photo Request) |
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Date Posted: 14/12/07 4:59pm Help needed if possible please. Anyone in Liverpool who lives near the Liverpool Naval Memorial, situated on the Mersey River Front at the Pier Head, close to and behind the Liver Buildings at the end of James Street. Another website I help on has asked if it is possible for anyone to take a digital photo of Panel 21, Column 1. covering the person named below. HARRIS, Fireman and Trimmer, HUBERT ARTHUR, 171331, H.M. Yacht Sappho, Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy). 29 September 1940. Age 19. Panel 21, Column 1. I would appreciate it very much if someone from this forum could possibly do this for me and send to me via email so I can forward on. Thanks At the outbreak of the Second World War, it was evident that the Royal Navy would not be able to man all the auxiliary vessels that would serve with it. To deal with the shortfall in manpower, a number of officers and men of the Merchant Navy agreed to serve with the Royal Navy under the terms of a T.124 agreement, which made them subject to Naval discipline while generally retaining their Merchant Navy rates of pay and other conditions. The manning port established to administer these men was at Liverpool. More than 13,000 seamen served under these conditions in various types of auxiliary vessels, at first mainly in armed merchant cruisers, but also in armed boarding vessels, cable ships, rescue tugs, and others on special service. The Liverpool Naval Memorial commemorates 1,400 of these officers and men, who died on active service aboard more than 120 ships, and who have no grave but the sea. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: Liverpool Naval Memorial | Vernon (Question?) | 15/12/07 1:55am |
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