Lundy Memorial to John Pennington Harman V.C.

Friends gather at his favourite boyhood spot

On the fifth anniversary of the publication of the citation announcing the V.C. in the London Gazette a large party of personal friends of Mr Martin Coles Harman, owner of Lundy, assembled in the ‘ V.C. Quarry’ named by Mr Harman as the spot which his son made his playground.

24 June 1949 Lundy Memorial to John Pennington

Lance-Corporal Harman was 29 when he lost his life in action in some of the bitterest fighting of the Burma Campaign in 1944.

Gazette article 24 June 1949

 

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