4200 x 2789 px | 35,6 x 23,6 cm | 14 x 9,3 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
14 marzo 2014
Ubicazione:
Nunhead Cemetery, South London, England, UK
Altre informazioni:
On Saturday 3 August 1912 a group of twenty-four scouts from the 2nd Walworth Scout Troop sailed from Waterloo Bridge to a camp at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. They spent the night at Erith but the next day, when almost in sight of their camp, capsized in a gale. The local lifeboat was launched and many were saved by the actions of the Scoutmaster and other adults on board but 8 scouts were drowned together with a young boy from the training ship Arethusa. The tragedy captured the national imagination and their bodies were transported back to London by a destroyer and hundreds of thousands of people attended the boys' lying in state and mass funeral. The grave site in Nunhead cemetery included a life-size bronze statue of a Scout designed by Sir G G Scott but this was stolen in 1969. It was replaced with the present memorial in 1992.
