Post by Administrator on Feb 20, 2015 14:00:13 GMT
Merchant Navy Day on 3rd September each year:
Merchant Navy Day Annual Service:
6 September 2015 12:30-2:30pm
4 September 2016 12:30-2:30pm
3 September 2017 12:30-2:30pm
2 September 2018 12:30-2:30pm
The UK's principal Merchant Navy Day Service is held annually at the national Merchant Navy Memorial in Trinity Square Gardens on Tower Hill in London EC3 on the Sunday immediately following Merchant Navy Day, 3rd September each year. Ai multi-faith service, it is organised by the Merchant Navy Association. In the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the three memorials there bear the 35,395 names of those merchant seamen from the First and Second World Wars together with the Falklands Campaign for whom there is no known grave but the sea.