More Liverpool War Memorials
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 20:00 on 25 November 2018
There is a cluster of memorials on the riverfront of the Mersey in Liverpool – all relating to World War 2.
The SS Arandora Star was torpedoed west of Donegal on 2/7/1940. Over 800 drowned:-
HMT Lancastria was sunk off St Nazaire 17/6/1940 while evacuating British servicemen and civilans. Up to 6,000 people lost their lives:-
Memorial to ranks and ratings who died on shore with no known grave:-
Repatriation Memorial, commemorating the return of Far East prisoners of war and detainees:-
Tags: Arandora Star, HMT Lancastria, Liverpool, River Mersey, Second World War, St Nazaire, War Memorials, World War 2, WW2, WWII
