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Mission statement – Lancastria Memorial Fund
The Lancastria Memorial Fund exists to honour those who paid the supreme sacrifice aboard the troopship Lancastria on the 17th of June 1940 by erecting a permanent memorial to the estimated 4000 souls who were lost and effectively forgotten by history.
The creators of the Fund intend that the Memorial will be a focus of remembrance for the thousands of relatives who lost fathers, brothers and sons during the evacuation of France in June 1940 aboard the Clyde built troopship Lancastria.
The site for the memorial in the grounds of the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank will be deeply symbolic as it was here that the Lancastria was built and launched.
The erecting of this significant memorial in Clydebank to those who were killed in action, the first major memorial in the UK to the Lancastria fallen, will complete the circle and mark the sacrifice, courage and determination of those who paid the ultimate price in defence of freedom.
For more information contact: memorial@lancastria.org.uk
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Above, 4000 poppies are laid out on the floor of the Scottish Parliament to mark the start of the Lancastria commemorative medal campaign, and below the site where the Lancastria memorial will be built. Permission has been given to the Association to erect the memorial (subject to statutory planning requirements and ongoing consultation with the GJH) on this location at the site of the former Dalmuir Yard where the Lancastria was built in 1920.
THE PLANS
The Memorial obelisk 
Description:
Two paths lead from the existing block paving which surrounds the site, to a circular area. The additional paths and circular area will be finished in grey/black Caithness Stone.
Round the edge of the circular area there are 4 Caithness Stone benches, supported on black metal capstans, to maintain the nautical and shipyard connection.
Two of the paths lead to gaps in the benches. The other two gaps allow access onto the grass area.
Recessed floodlighting connected into the street lighting, which surrounds the existing site, will be on the four sides of the obelisk and are set into the paving and will illuminate the obelisk at night.
A central plinth is raised at a height of 450mm to set the obelisk off the ground. This plinth is set at the same height as the adjacent benches.
The obelisk consists of 2 triangular tapered pieces of Caithness Stone with a gap of only 100mm. These are shown as 6 meters in height. Set within the three sides of stone would be stainless steel plaques to give an explanation of the memorial.
The wide face with the gap between the two pieces of stone is set to provide the maximum shadow, while the gap is designed to allow a shaft of sun through at approximately 4pm on 17 June, the precise moment, to the minute when Lancastria began to sink. To emphasise the significance of this moment in time a stainless steel plate is set in to the ground like a horizontal mast radiating out at the correct angle to where this meets the existing path.
Plan of proposed memorial site below
Copyright on memorial drawings, David Murdoch
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