EARL JELLICOE MEMORIAL

Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 8

EARL JELLICOE MEMORIAL

UNVEILED AT NAVAL BASE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE (Special to The Times) WELLINGTON, September 17. A naval memorial to Earl Jellicoe, former Governor-General of New Zealand and Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet during the Great War, was unveiled in England early this month, according to advice which has reached the New Zealand Navy Office. The memorial is in the church of St. Barbara on Whale Island and has been erected by gunnery officers of the fleet, past and resent. It was unveiled by Lady Jellicoe and dedicated by the Ven. Archdeacon A. D. Gilbertson, Chaplain of the Fleet. The memorial takes the form of an addition to a former memorial in the church and cosist of an oblong oak panel bearing the head of Lord Jellicoe, life-sized, on a circular bronze plaque, surmounted by a cornice and flanked by fluted oak pillars. Below the panel is a grille of gilded iron-work in the form of folding doors arranged so as partially to obscure the carved oak panel of the 1914-18 memorial. In the centre, below the grille a panelled oak stand is provided for a book of remembrance. The whole of the design of the memorial was carried out by Mr N. F. Cachemaille-Day, designer of the church, working in close collaboration with the officers and men of H.M.S. Excellent. In the beginning of the book of remembrance is inscribed the fact that “This book was placed here on May 31, 1937, in remembrance of Lord and in addition to this memorial upon its pages are inscribed the names of those gunnery officers, commissioned gunners, gunners’ mates, ordnance artificers and chief armourers who have laid down their lives while serving in the Royal Navy since the end of the Great War, together with the names of those specially connected with H.M.S. Excellent, which it is specially desired to remember here.” Whale Island, in Hants, is a naval training base.