Free French Ship La Combattante


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Reference WMO/75488

Address:

St Ann's Church

Sunny Walk

Portsea

PO1 3NX

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: French Armed Forces: A brass plaque, mounted on a wooden backboard, having a single line border with oval bounded, decorated corners, showing ships badges in colour down the centre and an incised dedication on each side, one in English & one in French, On South Wall
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This tablet erected by their shipmates is/ dedicated to the proud memory of the/ 67 Officers and Men who lost their lives/ when the Free French Ship "La Combattante"/ a "hunt class" destroyer of the 1st Destroyer/ Flotilla (1942 - 1945) was sunk in the North/ Sea during the night of 23rd February/ 1945

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