Memorial plans for liner victims
A campaign has been launched to raise money for a memorial to the Welsh Italians who died when a liner they were on was torpedoed in World War II.
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The Arandora Star was a former luxury liner that was painted grey and covered in barbed wire during World War II.
Picture courtesy National Maritime Museum
Over 800 people - the majority of them of Italian descent - died when the Arandora Star sank as they were being sent to prison camps in Canada.
A group now plans to unveil a plaque in a church in Cardiff on the 70th anniversary of the disaster in 2010.
Other memorials are already in Liverpool, London, Glasgow and Italy.
Bruna Chezzi, secretary of the Arandora Star Memorial Fund in Wales, said the group, many of whom had relatives on the ship, believed it was time Wales also had a way of commemorating the men.
"A lot of the Italians on the Arandora Star were from Wales and I feel very strongly that something should be done to remember these people," she said.
"Liverpool had their memorial last year and it made us realise that Wales has not got anything to mark what happened.
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