12th Flotilla Midget Submarines

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Reference WMO/161238

Address:

North junction of A886 and Shore Road

Port Bannatyne

PA20 0BB

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The plaque is on the wall behind the town memorial (WMO 161231). There is also a memorial to the Flotilla in St Ninians Church (this church is now closed, location of memorial unknown-WMO/161242). See separate report for the nearby memorial garden (WMO/178024). Three of the men died in an accident on nearby Loch Striven and are buried in Rothesay Cemetery Bute (Carroll, Higgins and Simpson- Higgins is a private gravestone, the two others are CWGC stones). Mr Whittam is buried at Tromso, Norway. All others have the sea as their grave.
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TO THE MEMORY OF/THE YOUNG MEN/OF THE TWELFTH FLOTILLA/MIDGET SUBMARINES/WHO TRAINED HERE/1942-1945/SOME DIED THAT/YOU AND I/MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM/AND PEACE

COLUMN 2 R. ANDERSON/ C.E. BONNELL/ A.J. BRAMMER/ P.C.A. BROWNING/ D. CAREY/ J.J. CARROLL/ H.F. COOK/ B. ENZER/ R. EVANS/ G.G. GOSS/ J.E. GROGAN/ K.V.F. HARRIS/ A.M. HARTE/ COLUMN 3 H. HENTY-CREER/ E.W. HIGGINS/ G.H. HOLLETT/ P.J. HUNT/ E. KEARON/ J. KERR/ D.H. LOCKE/ C. LUDBROOK/ B.M. MCFARLANE/ A.D. MALCOLM/ R. MAPLEBECK/ W.S. MARSDEN/ R. MORTIBOYS/ COLUMN 4 T.J. NELSON/ J. PRETTY/ R.W.PRIDHAM/ D.N.PURDY/ M. RICKWOOD/ J. SARGENT/ W. SIMPSON/ A. STAPLES/ S.F. STRETTON-SMITH/ I.M. THOMAS/ B. TREVETHIAN/ W.M. WHITLEY/ L.B. WHITTAM

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