Lest We Forget
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Seirbis onorac sa Muir-tractala na hÉireann 1939-46
[Service with honour in the Irish Mercantile Marine 1939-46]
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James & John Power |
Tom Ford |
Patrick Ryan |
Terry O Leary |
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John McCarthy |
Alexander Macleod |
James Wilson |
William Connolly |
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Sponsored by the Irish Seamen's Relatives Association (1939-46), the Irish Merchant Navy Memorial Plaque and Plinth uniquely embossed with the Irish flag commemorating those crews lost on Irish registered vessels during world war two, is now on view in the British Merchant Navy Section of the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire, England, which is currently managed by the Royal British Legion. An oak tree within the Merchant Navy Convoy oak wood section which is located directly behind the plinth is also dedicated to their memory. In September 2007, a new memorial plaque was affixed to the front of the plinth, to record the names of the 5 Irish Born Merchant Seamen captured while serving on British merchant vessels who lost their lives as a result of Gestapo ill-treatment in the Arbeitsertziehungslager located in Bremen-Farge 1943-45. The Irish Merchant Navy Memorial Plaque is listed in the official inventory of United Kingdom War Memorials.