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From left to right on Plymouth Hoe. 1.The Armada Memorial was put up in 1888. The architect was Herbert A Gribble, and the sculptor was W Charles May. The story is that Sir Francis Drake saw the Spanish ships of the Armada from Plymouth Hoe and stayed to finish a game of bowls before setting off to defeat the invasion in 1588. "He blew with His Winds, and they were Scattered" is a famous phrase on the aftermath of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the Spanish fleet was broken up by a storm, it was also called the Protestant Wind. 2. After World War I the Royal Navy wanted to find a way to commemorate sailors who had died at sea and had no known grave. An Admiralty committee recommended building memorials at the three main naval ports in Great Britain, these were Plymouth, Chatham, and Portsmouth. The memorials at all three sites were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and the sculpture was by Henry Poole. Following World War II the naval memorials were expanded to commemorate the dead from that war. Sir Edward Maufe was the architectural designer for the expansion at Plymouth, the sculpture was by Charles Wheeler and William McMillan. The Plymouth memorial also bears the names of sailors from Australia, South Africa and India. The Plymouth Naval Memorial commemorates 7,251 sailors of World War I and 15,933 of World War II. 3. The memorial is thought to be the first one in the country to acknowledge those who served in all commands of the Royal Air Force and Allied Air Forces during WWII, including men and women from Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, former Rhodesia, South Africa, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland. It also marks our particular gratitude to the United States of America, for the major part that it played in the war in the air, particularly over Europe. Also the substantial losses that it sustained with our other main ally, the USSR. Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.

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