Supported by: Mark Ruskell*, Ivan McKee*, Gillian Martin*, Joan McAlpine*, Mairi Evans* *S5M-00355 Liam McArthur: Remembering the Lives Lost on board HMS Hampshire That — the Parliament pays tribute to the lives lost on board HMS Hampshire when it sank off the coast of Birsay on 5 June 1916, 100 years ago, and pays thanks to all those involved in the special service Tuesday 7 June 2016 (No 91/2016) 10 Today's Business Future Business Motions & Questions Legislation Other Gnothaichean an-diugh Gnothaichean ri teachd Gluasadan agus Ceistean Reachdas Eile Motions | Gluasadan of commemoration held on 5 June 2016 at the Kitchener Memorial at Marwick Head, at which the restored memorial and new commemorative wall were officially unveiled by the Lord-Lieutenant of Orkney, Bill Spence; note that, in 1926, the people of Orkney erected the Kitchener Memorial above the cliffs at Marwick Head, overlooking the site of the 1916 tragedy, and the Orkney Heritage Society, led by Neil Kermode, has been carrying out a recent project to restore the memorial to its original condition and create the new commemorative wall engraved with the names of those 737 men who died on the Hampshire and the nine servicemen killed when the mine-sweeping vessel, Laurel Crown, sank less than three weeks later; further notes the visit to Orkney by HRH The Princess Royal when she unveiled a book of remembrance in the Birsay Community Hall, which lists those who were lost in the sinking, and met those behind the project, as well as descendants of those who were lost in the sinking, and thanks all those involved in the restoration project to better remember the lives of the servicemen who lost their lives on board HMS Hampshire and the Laurel Crown.