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Cross of Sacrifice. View from East

SC 645454

Description Cross of Sacrifice. View from East

Date 30/5/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 645454

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 73177

Scope and Content Cross of Sacrifice, World War I and II Naval Cemetery, Lyness, Hoy, Orkney Islands Originally created during the Great War, the Naval Cemetery at Lyness is a formal tribute to the memory of Royal Navy personnel who died in both World Wars. Dedicated especially to those who lost their lives as a result of local naval tragedies involving HMS Hampshire (1916), HMS Vanguard (1917) and HMS Royal Oak (1939), it also records losses at the Battle of Jutland (1916), to which the Grand Fleet had sailed out of Scapa Flow. This view shows the symbolic Cross of Sacrifice which stands at the centre of Lyness Naval Cemetery. Erected in the aftermath of World War I, it bears the inscription: Their Name Liveth For Evermore (Ecclesiasticus 44:14). In the background is the bleak hillside of Wee Fea with the naval signal station of 1943 near the summit and on the left, just below the conifer plantation, one of the pillboxes which surrounded the perimeter of Lyness in World War II. At the heart of the Orkney archipelago, Scapa Flow was the main fleet anchorage for the Royal Navy during both World Wars. Its vital importance led to the creation of one of the most concentrated defence networks in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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