REMEMBERING THE FALLEN

RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: november/december 2015 :: RMTnews 25 R MT assistant national secretary Mark Carden laid a wreath on behalf of the union on Remembrance Sunday at a memorial service in Trinity Square Gardens London which recognised the efforts of more than 40,000 UK merchant seafarers lost during two world wars and subsequent conflicts. The centenary was marked of the loss of Cunard’s flagship RMS Lusitania — torpedoed during the First World War and those lost during the fight against fascism. “We all owe a great deal of gratitude to Merchant seafarers that sacrificed so much to keep this country fed during the Nazi onslaught and supplied the Soviet Union throughout the dark days of World War Two,” he said. The monument near Tower Hill station lists all those who died in those conflicts and lists the ships lost as well as the trawlers of fisherman that continued to work in order to feed Britain during the Second World War. REMEMBERING THE FALLEN