4 - 31 May 2014
The Millin-Montgomery D-Day 70th anniversary voyage of Remembrance
We need ships and boats of all shapes and sizes to take part in this event. Will you add you and your vessel's name to the “Roll Of Honour” and a place in history?
Join us to celebrate and commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-Day in a relay of 'Little Ships' from Fort William to Portsmouth.
In 1940 it was the legendary 'Little Ships' alongside the Royal Navy that saved the Army at Dunkirk: privately owned pleasure craft, fishing boats and ferry boats. It took four years to return en masse for D-Day.
As it was then, so it can be the people's effort now to celebrate and commemorate this 70th Anniversary in a relay of 'Little Ships' from Fort William to Portsmouth. At each Port the local community are invited to gather in celebration, involving all ages: those who remember first hand through to schoolchildren & youth groups who can learn the key role played by their home town.
D-Day Bagpipes will be brought down to Fort William where they will be put aboard the first of the 'Little Ships' leaving on 4 May. Fresh from the highland ceremonies, John Millin will play the Pipes aboard as he hands over to the first volunteer Piper, who will then play the ship out of Port and remain on board through to the next Port.
At the end of this anniversary 'relay' voyage over four weeks, the Pipes will arrive in Portsmouth on Saturday 31 May. Carried by various and varied vessels throughout this tribute voyage, the Pipes will visit ports en route which are significantly part of the D-Day story. Ceremonies are planned along the voyage, with the ships being piped into Port by each Volunteer Piper playing the Millin pipes.
The Route:
Fort William - Oban - Campbeltown - Carrickfergus - Liverpool - Conway - Milford Haven - Padstow - Falmouth - Fowley - Plymouth - Salcombe - Dartmouth - Weymouth/Portland - Poole - Southhampton - Portsmouth
To register your interest or for further details, contact Sean Pullen, The Royal British Legion City of Liverpoool Branch, E: poppyappeal@fsmail.net T: 0787 624 6011
Or visit d-dayrevisited.co.uk/event/millin-montgomery-voyage
