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Dr M M Gilchrist

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Plaque

Memorials

Wall Plaque – Humber Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-1945

Common name(s): Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Memorial
Catalogue ID: 609

Description

White/light grey veined marble plaque commemoration the Humber Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in WW2. Top centre, polychrome badge of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, below which is black-filled serif inscription, including lines from Rudyard Kipling's The Song of the Dead.

Inscription and donor(s)

TO THE MEMORY
OF
THE MEN OF THE HUMBER DIVISION
ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE SERVICE
1939-1945

'We have fed our sea for a thousand years
And she calls us still unfed
though there's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead.'

from their shipmates and families

Donor
Shipmates and families

Physical attributes & manufacture

Material
Marble

Location

N Choir Aisle, North Wall

Condition

January 2021

Good – modern monument

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