East Hampshire District Council flies Red Ensign for Merchant Navy Day
Paul Coates
East Hampshire District Council honoured the work and sacrifices of the Merchant Navy by flying the Red Ensign over its Penns Place headquarters in Petersfield.
Council vice-chairman Cllr Ingrid Thomas raised the flag on Merchant Navy Day on September 3 and spoke of the seafarers in her family. She said: “One of my great-grandfathers was a master mariner and sailed out of Charlestown in Cornwall, while another was a coastguard. My father was a Royal Marine and my cousins both volunteer for the RNLI in Cornwall, so my family knows a little bit about life at sea and the perils of the ocean.”