Post by KG on Jun 9, 2018 19:27:45 GMT
Russian Consulate General in Edinburgh
7 June.
Scottish veteran presents a gift to the Arctic Convoys Museum in St Petersburg
A WWII Veteran Mr Murray Haddow who took part in the six Arctic convoys and was awarded with the Admiral Ushakov medal presented Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh with a painting, which is a gift to a new Arctic Convoys Museum in St Petersburg at the Maritime College named after Russian admiral Stepan Makarov.
He commissioned his daughter-in-law Fiona Haddow, a Scottish artist, to paint a Memorial stone at Cove in Wester Ross, North West Scotland. The backdrop of the painting is Loch Ewe where many of the Convoys sailed from.
The wording on the stone, which was installed with support from the veterans, reads:
In memory of our shipmates
Who sailed from Loch Ewe
During WWII
They lost their lives
In the bitter Arctic sea battles
To North Russia
And never returned
To this tranquil anchorage
We will always remember them.
7 June.
Scottish veteran presents a gift to the Arctic Convoys Museum in St Petersburg
A WWII Veteran Mr Murray Haddow who took part in the six Arctic convoys and was awarded with the Admiral Ushakov medal presented Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh with a painting, which is a gift to a new Arctic Convoys Museum in St Petersburg at the Maritime College named after Russian admiral Stepan Makarov.
He commissioned his daughter-in-law Fiona Haddow, a Scottish artist, to paint a Memorial stone at Cove in Wester Ross, North West Scotland. The backdrop of the painting is Loch Ewe where many of the Convoys sailed from.
The wording on the stone, which was installed with support from the veterans, reads:
In memory of our shipmates
Who sailed from Loch Ewe
During WWII
They lost their lives
In the bitter Arctic sea battles
To North Russia
And never returned
To this tranquil anchorage
We will always remember them.
