Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2013 18:55:13 GMT -5
Merchant Navy Day Service on 8 September:
Merchant Navy Association members are eagerly preparing for this year’s Merchant Navy Day Commemorative Service and Reunion at the Merchant Navy Memorial in London on 8 September.
The British Airways Pipe Band will lead the parade of Merchant Navy standards and standards of other associations, followed by serving and retired merchant seafarers with other organisations, leaving Muscovy Street (off Trinity Square, behind the Liberty Bounds public house; not Mark Lane as in previous years) for Trinity Square Gardens at 12:30.
The principal guest will take the salute upon arrival of the parade in Trinity Square Gardens. The multi-faith commemorative service and wreath-laying will be held at the Merchant Navy Memorial.
This annual service is held on the Sunday in September closest to Merchant Navy Day (3 September) in memory of merchant seafarers who died in World Wars I and II and in conflicts up to the present day.
After the service a ‘Sea of Red Ensigns’ will be placed in the lawn at the Sunken Garden, in memory of lost merchant seafarers.
Everyone is invited to attend. Medals may be worn. For further information please contact Tim Brant, National Secretary, Merchant Navy Association, phone 01472 851130, email mna.national@virgin.net.
Merchant Navy Association members are eagerly preparing for this year’s Merchant Navy Day Commemorative Service and Reunion at the Merchant Navy Memorial in London on 8 September.
The British Airways Pipe Band will lead the parade of Merchant Navy standards and standards of other associations, followed by serving and retired merchant seafarers with other organisations, leaving Muscovy Street (off Trinity Square, behind the Liberty Bounds public house; not Mark Lane as in previous years) for Trinity Square Gardens at 12:30.
The principal guest will take the salute upon arrival of the parade in Trinity Square Gardens. The multi-faith commemorative service and wreath-laying will be held at the Merchant Navy Memorial.
This annual service is held on the Sunday in September closest to Merchant Navy Day (3 September) in memory of merchant seafarers who died in World Wars I and II and in conflicts up to the present day.
After the service a ‘Sea of Red Ensigns’ will be placed in the lawn at the Sunken Garden, in memory of lost merchant seafarers.
Everyone is invited to attend. Medals may be worn. For further information please contact Tim Brant, National Secretary, Merchant Navy Association, phone 01472 851130, email mna.national@virgin.net.