The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-07-09, Page 124
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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL; LUCKNOW, .ONTARIO
Sanellicholson
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Oversei.'s T0'p
Bridal Shower
Sandy Nicholson, a native of this
community and a frequent .visitor
.here, is presently on, an overseas
trip and The Sentinel asked him to
pena few lines on his experiences
Hs -firs letter�fnliows;
Dear Don
,, Although the Orkney and Shetland
. Islands:.are a., most.. interesting part
of -United Kingdon),; very_few• Cana-
dians visit the area.
During both World Wars Scapa
Flow in .the Orkneys, Ywas an impor-
tant naval base, rarely, mentioned
in news dispatches. At the
conclusion of World War I the
treaty required that the German
Navy,be sent at once to Scapa ,Flow
The order was obeyed. However,
• after the ships'arrived they were all
scuttledwith the.officers and. men
• returning"safely to Germany. Now,
More' than ,50years later , . parts of
many of these ships, badly rusted,.
Can be seen in many.places Sal
vage work, still contilues .
To ,the east: of. Scapa. Flow, there
were until the second' world war ,
. four channels,leadinginto the•
naval anchorage, :These were
blocked with sunken , German World
•.War:1 ships and it was thought that.
•attack from the East•was.impossible
• However-:in=October.:1939; Ger-.'
Man U Boat Commander.took ad
vantage. of a gap,in the defences of.
Holm: Sound and an exceptionally
high tide He ,penetrated the . Flow ,
sank' the.Royal`Oak, the. flagship
• of the''British Navy: and got away
Safely. More. than 800 men perish-
ed: One man managed.to swim
ashore and.was rescued by a'
` • farmer. Later he married the farm-
• er's. daughter and/now lives near
:where so; many of his comrades lost
their ;lives..00ne very small fishing
boat ,was ;;near •y:
ible• for 200: to 'reach shore. ,Had .it
beenrealized' on such a dark night.
''that theshore was;so.close, More. •
'might: have reached land
The'navy •:having learned a hard
lesson left it's Orkney anchorage
until the entrance could be .
securely sealed., The method
'chosen was to.larmassive barriers.
•;of stone and cement on the "sea bed
. from island': to . island. When
cmpleted--theJrbee-know-
'the ')Churchill Barriers". They are.'
about a mile. and'a half in' length
and'required more than a 'quarter
of a• million. tons of stone' and' rock
Mrs ..John C..;, Mac :na eli and
Corinne were hostesses for a shower
for Sharon,Norman whose marriage
to Gary Courtney takes placelater*
this month; About sixty; relatives:
and neighbours from the Second
Concession gathered tq 'shower
Sharon:w'ith many useful gifts..A
program. consisted of musical num
bersay Margaret Anne, Mary Jane,,
Wendy-ancEShannon.l,ee- Courtney
accompanied by Mrs.., Bob \
Courtney;, Nancy . MacKay , .Bertha•
Scott; ..Gerry'MaaLeod. and .Corinne
MacDonald. • Readings. were given
by Mrs.. Howard Thompsonancl-Mrs-.-
COnttney:
Kingsbridge Cubs
'by AkeTa .
On July 3,. 24 cubs attended a
meeting. HenryNan Dyke led in
the Grand 'Howl. The cubs were
then paired off and each: pair gave
a :different safety reminder. When ..
to do•.artificial respiration was dis--
cussed.
Ron had his doon buggy at the
meeting and we also watched an;
airplane spraying
Weplayed: baseball. Dewayne•
Rising led in; the Grand, Howl and
Akela closed with prayer and O
Canada..
years of captivity`on'Larnbholm.•
"The camp still lacked a chapel..
Eventually a new commandment
.authorized enough scrap material' .
and two Nissen huts to be available•:.
The prisoners included'. Signor:
Chiocchetti,, now a well known
Italian artist and many skilled arti
sans
The corrugated iron •of: the hut waJ
covered, with plaster board and pain-
ted ter reseble well known Italian
The: altar and altar rail were
beautifully designed 'and moulded
in concrete :. Behind ; the : altar, the
madonna and the -child; were
'painted-by-Chiocchetti
•
Another *painting of St. Francis of
Assisi has: -a translation of the'
following prayer of ,St . 'Francis.
' "Lard:, make me a.n.instruinent of
Thy peaces where there is hatred;
let rne` sow love; where there' is
n -as— i n jury.,_pauloA; ier_e there is •
darkness, •light; where there is sad-.
ness
. 'goy''
on the. sea .bed, Borne places bu
'`sr;rr fI'xa� feet deep. -The causeway on top
was built of huge blocks of concr'e:-
te weighing between 5 and 10'tons'.
,'' •They were placed in irregular pos=
)tions to preventthe tide from
sweeping over :the road which runs,.
alongthe top.
Vey early dtiring. the`;first World Some fifteen years later .theeB$C
War,.' the ship which'was carrying beamed'several broadcasts to Italy
`Kitchener to Russia went down in . `i to try.to locate the artist. • He was
this-s-ame:area . #'o und-w-ith-his- Wife..and ch; lci
The Orkney Island's have always '. living in Moena, a village in the,
Do
attracted many tourists wishin to rough
g fomites In 1960 through. the
-`- efforts-ofthe-BBC.and-a-cert-i-tt e
,,,see the stone age huts built, at least .; •
a thousand_ years before the Romans.. in Orkney,' the travelling..expenses :,
were `in Scotland;. The Italian, were raised to bring Chiocchetti
Chapel,` built during World War back for a three'weeks visit when'.
two is `now the.most popular -tourist '' he 'restored the' paint work of `the' '
attraction' in Orkney. ; interior and made other important
• • '.'; repair's. Again in 1.964 the artist.
Several hundred`ltalian prisoners- .;'wasabfe f'o visit Crk`ne• s"cYe`'`
during the., North African campaign ',guest of the Preservation Commi
were: sent to' Orkney to help build 'ttee, ThiS't•ithe his wife Maria
the Churchill Barriers, Thirteen .
',accompanied him. They brought
huts were provided to house the ;.gifts from the Mayor. and' comm -
Men.' Flowers; 'Concrete •paths'a.nd a unity of Moena,
theatre were soon pl ovic e3" to•. make ;
In a country which has paid such'
life. tiiore interesting, a price for wars through many '
• An artist and a cement worker de..4 hundreds of years it is encouraging
'signed :ind built of barbed wire and, to find this.workof prisoners of
jr c'melit 1 11remdr4al in concrete of war helping to create internation-
St.. t;c"�ir�;c ,laying the Dragon, ' i al good 'all in an''uneasy wor
iviiiholical of their triumph over
defeat and lonelinessduring 'their 5andy,•
'After, the 'war;,the whole camp
except the, cement paths, the 'hut
;foundations,Yhsappeared with the
exception of 'the Chapel • and' Si.
George with. his dragon. Tape. people
:of'Orkney had heard of the'beauty.
Of the Chapel and 'began to visit it.
Gradually it' becarne a :place of
pilgrimage 'for thousands' of visitors
each year. •
'WEDNESDAY, JULY 9th, 1969
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