A new wreath was laid on the Anchor Memorial in readiness for Remembrance Sunday by Brum Serrell
Around the UK HMS Ardent Association members gathered to remember the nations fallen and our 22 shipmates killed in action on the 21 May 1982.
In Plymouth Steve Palmer reported… “It was great to see so many of us gathered on a glorious sunny Hoe this morning for our brief but moving act of Remembrance. Our poppy wreath was laid on behalf of the Association by Lenny, who stepped forward in company with Cliff Cowling for the Type 21 Association.
Also good to meet up once again with representatives of the HMS Gloucester Association who like to join us each November, with their memorial stone being just a few feet from ours. The "Fighting G" went down on 22nd May 1941 after heavy Stuka dive-bomber attacks during the Battle of Crete. It is always sad and sobering to remember that there were only 85 survivors from her crew of 817.
Also, by coincidence, the ship's sponsor for the WW2 HMS Gloucester was, naturally enough, the then Duchess of Gloucester. Her daughter-in-law, the present Duchess, is of course very well known to us as our patron.”
Images provided by Beryl Yeatman
London
(Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire)
In London at the Cenotaph some of our shipmates marched with the Type 21 Club and SAMA82 meeting afterwards in Covent Garden to catch up. This event at The Porterhouse is organised by Derek Ross (first picture below, Derek on the right) and is a well run, and well received event, by the veterans that attend. Derek also provided an update on the repatriation project to bring HMS Ambuscade home from Pakistan which still seems to be an impossible project without more support by all governments concerned.
Images provided by Richie
Around the UK
Portsmouth, Dunblane, Havant and all the other places not yet reported, wreaths were laid. These images sourced from our Facebook Group.
Thank you to everyone that supported Remembrance Sunday this year and also help keep the memory of our 22 shipmates alive.
