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Keith At Tregenna
5 September 2015.
In wartime nowhere in the country was to far from the sea, never did a ship not sail for a lack of a crew. Many that survived a sinking returned as soon as possible to another ship.
The Red Ensign was of the Merchant Navy was hoisted at Old County Hall in Aylesbury on the morning of Thursday September 3rd (Merchant Navy Day) to honour the country's seafarers.
'We may be furthest you can get from the sea in Buckinghamshire, but we're an island nation and we rely on the men and women of our Merchant Navy for 90% of our imports - including half the food we eat – and I want to pay tribute to them,' Buckinghamshire County Council Chairman Bill Chapple OBE.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun, and the morning,
We WILL remember them.
The Chairman held a minute's silence in memory of Merchant Navy seamen who died during World War II. On September 3 1939 - the first day of the war - the SS Athenia was the first merchant ship to be torpedoed with the loss of 128 passengers and crew.
This was the first Merchant Navy Day in both the town and for the County and was watched by a small group of Buckinghamshire's retired seamen and members of the community - Sea Cadet Ben King raised the red duster to mark National Merchant Navy Day.
Among the retired Merchant Navy personnel who stood in silence were Roger Taplin, from Little Marlow, who served on the Queen Elizabeth in the 1950s, Other veteran seamen who watched the flag-raising included Stuart Shields, from Hazlemere, with 40 years service, and Peter Smith, from Monks Risborough, with eight years service and Keith Greenway, an Aylesbury resident, a research officer with the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales)
Later in the day Keith, presented an archive of Buckinghamshire's Commonwealth War Grave Commissions Commemorated Merchant Navy personnel serving in both world wars (Compiled by Billy McGee. MNA Archivist)
ON MERCHANT NAVY DAY.
Take a little care this day and glance above the tiles,
Perchance to see a flagpole visible for miles,
Atop of it a red flag proudly whipping tight,
A Merchant Navy ensign flying there by right.
Merchant Navy Day: September 3 EVERY YEAR.
From important buildings as well as from the sea.
It’s flown to honour mariners and shipping history,
Sailing through the years, transporting all the freight,
Conserving of the lifelines keeping Britain great.
If you glance aloft and see with knowing eye,
A `duster` at the masthead when you're passing by,
Please inform your offspring while going on to say,
A debt is owed to seamen under colours flown today.
Joe Earl.
The mayor of Aylesbury Alison Harrison laid a wreath at the town monument to honour seafarers at the war memorial in Market Square, Aylesbury.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun, and the morning,
We WILL remember them.
“But for the Merchant Navy who bring us the food and munitions of war, Britain would be in a perilous state and ...the Army, Navy, and Air Force could not operate." Winston Churchill, April 1941.
Merchant seafarer's will be remembered from the heart.
5 September 2015.
In wartime nowhere in the country was to far from the sea, never did a ship not sail for a lack of a crew. Many that survived a sinking returned as soon as possible to another ship.
The Red Ensign was of the Merchant Navy was hoisted at Old County Hall in Aylesbury on the morning of Thursday September 3rd (Merchant Navy Day) to honour the country's seafarers.
'We may be furthest you can get from the sea in Buckinghamshire, but we're an island nation and we rely on the men and women of our Merchant Navy for 90% of our imports - including half the food we eat – and I want to pay tribute to them,' Buckinghamshire County Council Chairman Bill Chapple OBE.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun, and the morning,
We WILL remember them.
The Chairman held a minute's silence in memory of Merchant Navy seamen who died during World War II. On September 3 1939 - the first day of the war - the SS Athenia was the first merchant ship to be torpedoed with the loss of 128 passengers and crew.
This was the first Merchant Navy Day in both the town and for the County and was watched by a small group of Buckinghamshire's retired seamen and members of the community - Sea Cadet Ben King raised the red duster to mark National Merchant Navy Day.
Among the retired Merchant Navy personnel who stood in silence were Roger Taplin, from Little Marlow, who served on the Queen Elizabeth in the 1950s, Other veteran seamen who watched the flag-raising included Stuart Shields, from Hazlemere, with 40 years service, and Peter Smith, from Monks Risborough, with eight years service and Keith Greenway, an Aylesbury resident, a research officer with the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales)
Later in the day Keith, presented an archive of Buckinghamshire's Commonwealth War Grave Commissions Commemorated Merchant Navy personnel serving in both world wars (Compiled by Billy McGee. MNA Archivist)
ON MERCHANT NAVY DAY.
Take a little care this day and glance above the tiles,
Perchance to see a flagpole visible for miles,
Atop of it a red flag proudly whipping tight,
A Merchant Navy ensign flying there by right.
Merchant Navy Day: September 3 EVERY YEAR.
From important buildings as well as from the sea.
It’s flown to honour mariners and shipping history,
Sailing through the years, transporting all the freight,
Conserving of the lifelines keeping Britain great.
If you glance aloft and see with knowing eye,
A `duster` at the masthead when you're passing by,
Please inform your offspring while going on to say,
A debt is owed to seamen under colours flown today.
Joe Earl.
The mayor of Aylesbury Alison Harrison laid a wreath at the town monument to honour seafarers at the war memorial in Market Square, Aylesbury.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun, and the morning,
We WILL remember them.
“But for the Merchant Navy who bring us the food and munitions of war, Britain would be in a perilous state and ...the Army, Navy, and Air Force could not operate." Winston Churchill, April 1941.
Merchant seafarer's will be remembered from the heart.