l r va be ti m es ce F Cotton ’s Taxis e s n D a io & Mini Coach Service d tm it Tel: Saltash 3r is d Est over 45 Yrs t hr l E a C ia S h c s pe lta S Sa Established 24 years 84 84 84 November 2016 - Issue 296 Licensed P.C.V. & Hackney Carriage Operators Memorial to Lost Boys is Raised Again wenty-five boys who lost their lives hereabouts when aged between eleven and fifteen were remembered at St. Stephens church with the re- dedication of a fallen and forgotten memorial. The stone dedicated to the ‘homeless and destitute ‘ boys who died serving on the industrial Ttraining ship ‘Mount Edgecumbe’ while anchored in the Tamar off Saltash was found by Saltash Heritage’s Vice Chair Bruce Hunt to have collapsed. He reported this to Saltash Town Council who organised a skilled team of monumental masons to raise it and make it safe. A short ceremony was conducted by the Reverend of the boys buried thereabouts 1920. The boys received on board and played a part in October in St. Stephens’s Bob Munro, in the presence of before Mayor Hilary Frank there had been found to be ‘in the Saltash scene, their band churchyard. flag bearers from the Royal laid a wreath to them. need of care and protection’, in particular playing at local See more on TS Mount British Legion, as the boys The Mount Edgcumbe, a being found begging, festivities and their rowers Edgcumbe on page 12 Memorial as found were remembered and the wooden three-master, became truanting or just ‘found competing in regattas. Many memorial rededicated. Bruce a training ship in 1877 and wandering’. They received a went on to lead distinguished Hunt spoke of the background remained off Saltash until sound and disciplined training naval careers while one, % &" & ! ! Adam Smith, became a trawler man and led the Brixham fishing fleet to participate in the evacuation %$ &% of Dunkirk in 1940. (*$ . - 5$+".,$ 6.3 2. ).(- 2'$, Sadly, often as a result of %.0 &0$ 2 %..# -# ".-&$-( + ".,/ -6 an unhealthy upbringing, some were to die of such $$ &!, ($ (&, $)&
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