What is recorded here
Memorial to the British and Russian sailors lost in WW2. Celebrating the Arctic convoys that departed from Lyness.
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- Recorded date
- 2009
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- yvso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Douglas Nelson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Peter Bond, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Philip Cornwall, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Kevin Rae, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- David Medcalf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- John Lucas, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Calum McRoberts, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Claire Pegrum, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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