HM SUBMARINE L55

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Reference WMO/76753

Address:

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery

(Also called Clayhall Cemetery)

Gosport

PO12 2AZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: A screen memorial with a stepped arched head on a shallow rectangular base. The die has a raised border and five raised panels, the central one of which is flanked by the inscription ‘1914-1919’, and incised onto the panel is: ‘HERE ARE RECORDED / THE NAMES / OF THOSE OFFICERS / AND MEN OF / HM SUBMARINE L55 / SUNK / IN THE BALTIC ON / THE 4TH JUNE 1919 / WHO LIE BURIED / IN THIS GRAVE’. The outer four panels bear the names of the 42 victims arranged alphabetically with their ranks and ages.(ref Historic England) L55 was either sunk by British mines or Russian destroyers. The Russians raised and re-used it in 1927 allowing a British Merchant ship into Russian waters to collect the remains of the crew.
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