Our Patron, Captain Patrick Walker, has sent us this update regarding the BoA Memorial:
As I know you are aware, I am a Director and Trustee of a charitable project to create an international memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic on the Pier Head at Liverpool. So I thought I would take this opportunity to update you on progress to date and the intended way forward. Do please feel free to forward this email and attachments to anyone else who you think may be interested.
Tomorrow (8 January 2018) is a key date in that the official appeal will be launched to raise the necessary funds to create the memorial and this has been promulgated in the attached newspaper article which appeared in today’s Mail on Sunday. Tomorrow’s launch will take place in Liverpool and be covered initially by BBC North West TV, Granada TV and Radio Merseyside. It is hoped that this will feed across naturally to other national and regional media outlets.
The project is now supported by a website and social media outlets. These are: