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Tamworth, new Collage and Market Square, UK.

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Three ships' anchors sculpture, Tamworth, UK.

 

The sculpture consists of three ships' anchors held in place by a genuine anchor chain offered by a Portsmouth dockyard.

 

The anchors represent three able seamen whose courage shortened the Second World War by up to a year.

Local hero Colin Grazier and his comrade Tony Fasson died retrieving vital Enigma codes from a stricken German U-boat on 30 October 1942. A third man, 15 year-old Tommy Brown, survived only to die in a house fire two years later.

All three men were awarded the George Cross for their bravery.

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