Post by Administrator on Apr 17, 2024 21:01:19 GMT
Anzac Day is commemorated in the UK to express the enduring connection between countries and their shared military history. Each year on the 25th of April or the closest Sunday to the date. At dawn on the 25 April 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was the land based element of a strategy intended to allow Allied ships to pass through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople (now Istanbul) and ultimately knock Ottoman Turkey out of the war.
The annual ceremonies mark the first landings of troops from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, known as Anzacs, at Gallipoli at dawn on April 25 1915, the start of an ill-fated First World War campaign.
Barry's connection with war and naval history, ensure as a former Merchant Navy town we remember the heroics of seamen across the world, who made feats like that of PS Barry's possible. The paddle steamer PS Barry saw action during both World War One and World War Two. Originally designed in 1907 for a sleepy life carrying tourists along the Bristol Channel, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914 and went on to save many lives.
It was only with the Gallipoli Campaign that HMS Barry Field, as she'd been renamed, came into her own. Slow and lightly armoured, she was completely unsuited to a combat role, but the fighting on the beaches was going so badly that every ship possible was required to get the troops back to Egypt. Twice her paddles struck mines and she was almost lost, but against all the odds she was the last British ship to leave Suvla Bay, rescuing untold numbers of troops.
In 1920 she got a well-deserved refit, was renamed PS Waverley, and spent the interwar years plying her trade along the south coast for the Campbell's steamer line. Artefacts recovered from the vessel by divers lost in WW2 identify her as our paddler, she has now been declared a war grave, the Merchant Navy Association (Barry branch), with many groups and individuals secured and returned the artefacts to our town, now display at the Barry Town Council offices (Kings Square) these in time for a series of events in the town to mark the anniversary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015. A day where we commemorated not just those that died but all those people that have served on our behalf in conflict.
2024 will see further tributes, commemorations, remembrance and events including the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) Barry branch liaising with all bodies and relatives and loved ones of those with no known grave (but the sea) All organisations from the Armed Forces to Lifeboat (RNLI) Coastguard/Watch to clergy, Mayors, Councillors and Councils. Apparently the Vale may honour the RNLI during the “Festival of the Sea” event which is scheduled to take place at Barry Island on 1st and 2nd June, 2024. Barry Town Council is celebrating 50 years as a local authority. Events include a multitude of celebrations, such as D-Day 80 in June, a family fun day in August, and various festivities around Christmas.
From D Day to the Falklands, Armed Forces Day and National Fishing Remembrance Day on Sunday 12 May to Sea Sunday - Merchant Navy Day, Barry and the Vale will remember. On the 5th September 2016 members of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) Barry branch, accompanied by Mr T. Sylvester of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, spent a very pleasant afternoon on board PS Waverley on a short voyage in the Bristol Channel departing from Penarth. whilst on board they met the Captain Ross Cochrane and presented him with a Merchant Navy Barry branch plaque together with details of Barry’s own paddle steamer the PS. Barry - the Barry also during her service covered for the original Waverley and bore her name.
0n 2nd March 2008. A framed poem by Captain J S Earl, was presented to the Town mayor, the tribute to the paddle steamer PS Barry built for and named after the town was displayed at the Council Chamber. LINK:
The annual ceremonies mark the first landings of troops from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, known as Anzacs, at Gallipoli at dawn on April 25 1915, the start of an ill-fated First World War campaign.
Barry's connection with war and naval history, ensure as a former Merchant Navy town we remember the heroics of seamen across the world, who made feats like that of PS Barry's possible. The paddle steamer PS Barry saw action during both World War One and World War Two. Originally designed in 1907 for a sleepy life carrying tourists along the Bristol Channel, she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1914 and went on to save many lives.
It was only with the Gallipoli Campaign that HMS Barry Field, as she'd been renamed, came into her own. Slow and lightly armoured, she was completely unsuited to a combat role, but the fighting on the beaches was going so badly that every ship possible was required to get the troops back to Egypt. Twice her paddles struck mines and she was almost lost, but against all the odds she was the last British ship to leave Suvla Bay, rescuing untold numbers of troops.
In 1920 she got a well-deserved refit, was renamed PS Waverley, and spent the interwar years plying her trade along the south coast for the Campbell's steamer line. Artefacts recovered from the vessel by divers lost in WW2 identify her as our paddler, she has now been declared a war grave, the Merchant Navy Association (Barry branch), with many groups and individuals secured and returned the artefacts to our town, now display at the Barry Town Council offices (Kings Square) these in time for a series of events in the town to mark the anniversary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign in 2015. A day where we commemorated not just those that died but all those people that have served on our behalf in conflict.
2024 will see further tributes, commemorations, remembrance and events including the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) Barry branch liaising with all bodies and relatives and loved ones of those with no known grave (but the sea) All organisations from the Armed Forces to Lifeboat (RNLI) Coastguard/Watch to clergy, Mayors, Councillors and Councils. Apparently the Vale may honour the RNLI during the “Festival of the Sea” event which is scheduled to take place at Barry Island on 1st and 2nd June, 2024. Barry Town Council is celebrating 50 years as a local authority. Events include a multitude of celebrations, such as D-Day 80 in June, a family fun day in August, and various festivities around Christmas.
From D Day to the Falklands, Armed Forces Day and National Fishing Remembrance Day on Sunday 12 May to Sea Sunday - Merchant Navy Day, Barry and the Vale will remember. On the 5th September 2016 members of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) Barry branch, accompanied by Mr T. Sylvester of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, spent a very pleasant afternoon on board PS Waverley on a short voyage in the Bristol Channel departing from Penarth. whilst on board they met the Captain Ross Cochrane and presented him with a Merchant Navy Barry branch plaque together with details of Barry’s own paddle steamer the PS. Barry - the Barry also during her service covered for the original Waverley and bore her name.
0n 2nd March 2008. A framed poem by Captain J S Earl, was presented to the Town mayor, the tribute to the paddle steamer PS Barry built for and named after the town was displayed at the Council Chamber. LINK: