EXCLUSIVE: Slapdash staff have been labelled as 'disgraceful' for mistakenly calling the conflict the Great War on the plaque - a term denoting the First World War
EXCLUSIVE: Memorial with mistake that went unseen for 20 years has new home. Slapdash staff labelled as 'disgraceful' for mistakenly calling WW2 the Great WarA war memorial - featuring a factual error - that had been on a council's wall for 20 years has been moved to its new HQ... because no one had spotted the mistake.
One local - who spotted the blunder - slammed the council, saying: 'I thought:"Does no-one proofread this or have people forgotten their history?" Among the names is noted war hero William Dick Hawkes, the pilot of a Lancaster bomber who died aged 26 after being shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter over Holland in 1943'It's just poor show really, and shows complacency. And there it is on full public display.
Ron Ravenhall, who was 10 witnessed the plane explode above his house in occupied Hilversum, researched Mr Hawkes as he followed in the pilot's footsteps - going to the same school as him and serving in the RAF. A separate plaque next to it is dedicated to members of the 'County Hall staff' who died in the First World War and correctly calls it ‘The Great War.’
'I don’t think anyone in the building would have noticed this and probably don’t even care. I think they’re more concerned about what is happening now.' Glider pilot William Herbert Shipp died in September 1944. He was buried in the Netherlands with the heartbreaking inscription, while war hero William Dick Hawkes died aged 26 after being shot down by a Luftwaffe night fighter'Get rid of the idiot who has made the mistake and put someone in their place who knows what they are doing.'
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