The Tunnellers Font

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Reference WMO/145490

Address:

All Hallows by the Tower Church

Byward Street

London

EC3R 5BJ

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Font or Font Cover
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: No lettering
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Stone font replacing one destroyed by bombing in memory of the tunnellers of the Royal Engineers working in Gibraltar during WW2.
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On an explanatory plaque: The Tunnellers Font This Font is a Memorial to the Tunnellers of the Royal Engineers who, throughout the 1939-1945 War, excavated tunnels and chambers in the Rock of Gibraltar to make it safe from invasion. These sappers werve volunteers from the coal and metal mining industries, and of their number some were killed and more injured while on their sub-terranean labours. These men are hereby commemorated. It was fashioned by hand in the year 1944 by a Sicillian prionser of war from the hard Limestone of Gibraltar at the request of the Rev P. B. Clayton C. H., M. C. then visiting the rock as war-time padre of the Tanker Fleet. It replaces a Font in his church of All Hallows which was bombed and burnt by the German bombing of London in 1940. Major H. W. Wilson R. E. (T.) Commanding 172 Tunnelling Coy R. E. Gibraltar 1943-1945

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