H.M.N.Z.S. GAMBIA AND
H.M.S. GAMBIA NATIONAL MEMORIAL

FLY THE FLAG

This page was last updated: November 8, 2009
This photo kindly submitted by John Armitage of the 1946 Commission.
THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL  ALREWAS
Remembrance Day Nov 11th. 2006, with the last three pictures in this picture gallery being taken in 2009.

Royal Marine Band steps out looks like they are trying to catch up with the Drum Major, who had disappeared out of shot....Royal Marines on Parade.Per Mare Per Terram.Len contemplates the Memorial Stone...Len showing us all by example, and proud to show that he had cleaned the Gambia Memorial.Len with Garry Purdy. Garry is the son of the late William Purdy, who served with Len on Gambia on the first commission.
Royal Marines Memorial Dedication Day.
SEAHAM BRANCH OF R.B.L. LAY A WREATH.
In May 2008, the Seaham Branch of the Royal British Legion, asked if they could lay a wreath and say the Exaltation at the HMS Gambia Memorial.

Permission was given, and on a Saturday morning they arrived to find the memorial covered in grass cuttings.  They cleaned it up to take photographs, lay the wreath and say the exaltation, which Malcolm Summerbell says he greatly appreciated.

Malcolm took it upon himself to present the Branch with a Picture of HMS Gambia, and it now lies in a place of some prominence in their unit.
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