The Naval Service Memorial:

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The Royal Naval Association has been running a project to mark the 60th anniversary of our Royal Charter in 2014. The RNA National Council wanted an all-inclusive memorial that commemorates those who have served, serve today and will serve tomorrow regardless of rank, trade or fighting arm. We sought designs for a memorial to be placed in the Naval Section of the National Memorial Arboretum (NMA) to be a place for shipmates and their families of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, their Reserves, RFA, QARNNS, WRNS and RNXS to quietly remember their comrades and loved ones. At present there is the Armed Forces memorial for those who have given their lives on operations since WW2 and a collection of Association and Fighting Arm memorials in the Naval area. Unless your loved one served in one of the ship classes or one of the fighting arms with a memorial, there is no place in the Arboretum for you to feel ‘at home’.

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"Eighteen months of planning by the Royal Naval Association has resulted in a new addition to the National Memorial Arboretum. His Royal Highness, Prince Michael Of Kent GCVO, unveiled the Naval Service Memorial.

It is dedicated to the memory of the men and women of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the Maritime Reserves and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary who have lost their lives in the service of the nation."

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