Flower Class Corvettes


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Reference WMO/276968

Address:

National Memorial Arboretum

Croxall Road

Alrewas

DE13 7AR

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Two trees set within the Royal Naval Review garden. Blue metal plaque on post with inscription in white lettering below the emblem of the Flower Class Corvette Association.
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Emblem: FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE/ ASSOCIATION/ WITHOUT HASTE BUT UNRESTING THESE TWO TREES ARE PRESENTED BY THE/ FLOWER CLASS CORVETTE ASSOCIATION/IN TRIBUTE TO THE CREW THAT SERVED ON BOARD THE/ CORVETTES IN ALL THE THEATRES OF WAR 1939-1945/ "SHEPHERDS OF THE FLEET"/ BY/ DENIS J. WOODS/ (Poem arranged in verses in two columns): THERE WERE ORCHIS AND PETUNIA,/TULIP AND PRIMROSE TOO,/ VERBENA AND AZALEA,/ ALL GOOD SHIPS THROUGH AND THROUGH./ THE SHEPHERDS OF THE FLEET THEY WERE,/ TO ALL WE OWE A DEBT,/ EACH ONE A GALLANT FIGHTING SHIP,/ A "FLOWER CLASS" CORVETTE./ THEY HASTENED NOT, BUT RESTED NOT,/ AND SAW THEIR DUTY DONE./ FROM THE ICY RUSSIAN CONVOYS,/ TO A BLISTERING TROPIC SUN./ ALL CREWED BY MEN OF IRON WILL,/ WHO NEITHER FLINCHED NOR FLED,/ WHEN DUTY CALLED TO GIVE THEIR ALL,/ AND THE SEA CONSUMED THEIR DEAD./ SUCH PRETTY NAMES THOSE SMALL '?/ THERE WERE LARKSPUR, HONEYSUCKLE/ DIANTHUS AND HOLLYHOCK,/ AND THE ONLY TIME THEY PAUSED FOR BREATH,/ WAS 'REPAIR TIME' IN A DOCK!/ BUILT TO WITHSTAND A RAGING STORM,/ AND STILL FIGHT TOOTH AND CLAW,/ THEY PROVED THEIR WORTH TO A STILL FREE WORLD,/ AS COUNTLESS MILLIONS SAW./ THERE WERE SNOWDROP AND/ SNAPDRAGON,/ CARNATION AND DAHLIA TOO,/ GERANIUM AND GARDENIA,/ ALL GOOD SHIPS THROUGH AND THROUGH./ THE SHEPHERDS OF THE FLEET THEY WERE,/ TO ALL WE OWE A DEBT,/ EACH ONE A GALLANT FIGHTING SHIP,/ A 'FLOWER CLASS' CORVETTE!

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