Pier Head - Memorials

Memorials

The space also contains a number of memorials; Clockwise from the north are:-

  • The Titanic Memorial, to the engineers who remained at their posts during the sinking of the RMS Titanic,
  • the Cunard War Memorial.
  • the Alfred Lewis Jones memorial.
  • the Merchant Navy war memorial.

There are several recent additions to the memorials at the Pier Head; they include one to the Second World War convoy escort group commander Captain Johnnie Walker, and one remembering the Chinese merchant seamen who served and died for Britain in both World Wars, unveiled on 23 January 2006.

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