HC Deb 16 December 1955 vol 547 cc232-4W
Sir F. Markham

asked the Secretary of State for War if plans are now settled for a memorial to those who died in the "Lancastria" disaster of 1940; and if he will give particulars.

Mr. Head

I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the Answer which I gave him on 17th February. As I then implied, there will not be a special memorial to those who lost their lives in the "Lancastria." Those soldiers who have no known grave will be commemorated on the Memorial at Dunkirk which should be completed in the spring of 1957. The missing sailors have already been commemorated on the naval memorials at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth, the airmen on the Runnymede Memorial and the merchant seamen on the Tower Hill Memorial which was unveiled on 5th November.