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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.
Lancastria Association of Scotland. Registered Scottish Charity No: SCO39936
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.
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