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Plymouth Naval Memorial
Visiting Information
Visitors are kindly requested not to 'embellish' inscriptions on the
memorial using chalk or abrasive products in order to enhance them
for photographic purposes. Previous incidences of this have damaged
the panels.
Location Information
The Memorial is situated centrally on The Hoe which looks directly
towards Plymouth Sound. It is accessible at all times. Copies of the
Memorial Register are kept at the Tourist Information Office at Island
House, 9 The Barbican, Plymouth, PL1 2LS.
Historical Information
After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of
commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known
grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no
permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee
recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham,
Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of
unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading
mark for shipping. The memorials were designed by Sir Robert
Lorimer, who had already carried out a considerable amount of work
for the Commission, with sculpture by Henry Poole. The Plymouth
Naval Memorial was unveiled by HRH Prince George on 29 July 1924.
After the Second World War it was decided that the naval memorials
should be extended to provide space for commemorating the naval
dead without graves of that war, but since the three sites were
dissimilar, a different architectural treatment was required for each.
The architect for the Second World War extension at Plymouth was Sir
Edward Maufe (who also designed the Air Forces memorial at
Runnymede) and the additional sculpture was by Charles Wheeler and
William McMillan. The Extension was unveiled by HRH Princess
Margaret on 20 May 1954. A further unveiling took place on 11
November 1956, when panels honouring those who died on shore, but
who had no known grave, were unveiled by Admiral Sir Mark Pizey. In
addition to commemorating seamen of the Royal Navy who sailed from
Plymouth, the First World War panels also bears the names of sailors
from Australia and South Africa. The governments of the other
Commonwealth nations chose to commemorate their dead elsewhere,
for the most part on memorials in their home ports. After the Second
World War, Canada and New Zealand again chose commemoration at
home, but the memorial at Plymouth commemorates sailors from all
other parts of the Commonwealth. Plymouth Naval Memorial
commemorates 7,251 sailors of the First World War and 15,933 of the
Second World War.