War Memorial - South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Merchant Navy Memorial
This statue was unveiled by

Countess Mountbatten of Burma

on 19th September 1990
in memory of the thousands of merchant seamen
who sailed from this port and lost their lives in World War II.

Unrecognized, you put us in your debt;
Unthanked, you enter or escape, the grave;
Whether your land remember or forget
You saved the land, or died to try to save.
John Masefield, Poet Laureate

This page is dedicated to the 10 million victims of World War I and 60 million victims of World War II.
We should always remember the immense grief and loss each war brought to the world.


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