Lundy Island: LCpl J Pennington Harman VC

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Reference WMO/119726

Address:

Granite Quarry

East Side of Island

Lundy Island

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: On National Triust Property: Lt Pennington Harman VC died of his wounds in Burma on Easter Sunday 1944. The memorial is a slab of blue-grey stone (Oxfordshire gault) set on a granite base in a former quarry. It was dedicated in 1949. Here is a contemporary newspaper report of the dedication, from a news cutting posted on Facebook, probably first published in a North Devon newspaper: "V.C.'S MEMORIAL. Dedication Ceremony on Lundy Island A memorial to John Pennington Harman, V.C., son of the owner of Lundy Island, was dedicated on Monday by the Rev. H. C. A. S. Muller, priest-in-charge. The memorial was a slab of blue Oxfordshire gault set in a granite base in a disused quarry. The ceremony was attended by the population of 16, plus 100 special guests and about 600 day visitors. As a lance-corporal in the Royal West Kent Regiment Mr. Harman won the Victoria Cross at Kohima during the Burma campaign. The memorial on Lundy is erected in his favourite part of the island -- a disused quarry from which came stone to build London Embankment."
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Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends/ To The Memory Of John Pennington Harman Aged 29, Son Of Martin Coles Harman/ And Amy Ruth Harman Who Died Of Wounds In Burma On Easter Sunday 9 April 1944/ For His Bravery He Was Awarded The Victoria Cross/ This Tablet Is Erected By His Brother And Sisters Albion Pennington Harman/ Ruth Pennington Harman Jones And Diana Pennington Koast/ At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning, We Will Remember Them

John Pennington Harman

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