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Signpost to a Hunt
THE village of Puckeridge has just had four all over England to attend the 60th anniversary
new road signs at its entrances, complete with at our village church in Standon and the church
ship’s crest. was packed.
At the beginning of WW2 the East Herts I have contacted one survivor and we hope
district collected the money to launch a Hunt- you can notify any others through your letters
class destroyer, which was named after the page.
Puckeridge Hunt. – D N Redding, Puckeridge, Ware, Herts
This ship was destroyed by enemy action We couldn’t find a photograph of HMS
on the evening of September 6 1943, but Puckeridge, so instead here is a charm-
is still remembered by the older genera- ing photo of the hunt after which she was
tion as ‘our ship’. named (kindly sent in by Denis O’Regan
There are still survivors who would be -www.easykey.net).
pleased to see that their shipmates are The new road signs with the crest were
still remembered here. erected by Hertfordshire Highways, who
Eight survivors managed to come from sent us the image of the roadsign – Ed
Whose Navy is it?
WITH reference to the article Are we to understand the EU is The UK’s sovereign status
about the new carriers (August) now our new defence arrangement, has lapsed since the European
Baroness Taylor is quoted as saying: and if so please could either Communities Act 1972, according
“These ships are fundamental for Baroness Taylor or Sir Jonathon to Mr Justice Laws in rejecting
a Navy fi t for the 21st Century.” Band explain when Parliament the appeal of the so-called Metric
I don’t mean to be facetious, but placed our conventional and Martyrs.
which Navy? The First Sea Lord is nuclear forces at the disposal of The Treaties of Rome and
quoted as saying: “We are a major the EU? Maastricht also provide for a
European power, play a key part I believe that Parliament has at single foreign policy and defence
of the European Union and are a no stage approved the transfer of policy.
major leader in this field.” our defence to the EU and indeed Please can we have an honest
He is then quoted as describing the government gave assurances statement of where the RN is
the flight deck of each ship as during the recent debate on the heading?
“four acres of sovereign territory,” Treaty of Lisbon that defence I very much fear that within a
but he doesn’t say whose. continued as a UK preserve, few years it will have ceased to
There is no mention of NATO, as part of its argument that the exist in favour of an EU Navy.
which is surely the cornerstone of Treaty was altogether different – Stephen Dixon, Gillingham,
our defence. from the EU constitution. Kent
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