Renovatie Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Op dit moment is men druk bezig met de renovatie van het Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Op dit monument staan de namen van de bemanningsleden uit de Eerste (9667) en Tweede (14918) Wereldoorlog die geen bekend graf hebben. In de CWGC-nieusbrief van juni 2012 stond een kort stukje, waarin onder andere een 'bijzondere' ontdekking op de top van het monument genoemd wordt.
Citaat:
Work has been under way for almost a month at Portsmouth Naval Memorial - and has brought with it a bit of a surprise.
Scaffolding is in place to provide a platform for our staff as they clean off all the bronze, repoint the entire obelisk and replace some of the more eroded pieces of stone.
A safer method of climbing up through the inside of the Memorial is also being installed.
But our Works Manager, Chris Mc Lean, discovered someone had already devised their own way to scale the memorial, as he found traces of graffiti on the large copper sphere at the top.
"How anyone managed to get up to the top and then cut their initials into the copper is beyond me. It was hard enough climbing up safely inside scaffolding," he said.
Op de Facebookpagina van de CWGC staan foto's van de werkzaamheden:
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