All the plaques have been recovered - though one had been cut into four (as mentioned above) and another been damaged, though to what degree has not been disclosed:
Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945.
I will reserve my comment until I see what the courts hand down to these mindless individuals.
__________________ Spidge,
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
The Commonwealth War Grave Commission has lodged a claim for compensation for the theft of bronze plaques from a war memorial in Devon.
One was stolen from the Royal Navy war memorial on Plymouth Hoe hours after a Veterans' Day parade in June and three others were taken the following day.
They were recovered, but two have to be recast because they were so damaged.
The commission said the amount of compensation would be determined by the the courts.
Work on the plaques is being carried out by specialists in Australia but it could take up to 18 months to replace them.
Three men have been arrested in connection with the theft and released on bail.
The plaques, which list the names of some of the Royal Navy's war dead, were in the process of being restored by the commission when they were stolen.
Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945.