Whenever I see this statue, I think of the opening song in Tommy - the Rock Opera by The Who.
Captain Walker didn't come home.
His unborn child will never know him.
He's believed to be missing with a number of men,
Don't expect to see him again.
Of course it's got nothing to do with that! The truth is even better:
Captain Frederic John Walker specialised in hunting down and and sinking Nazi U-boats. By all accounts a charismatic and eccentric character, blasting out the tune "A Hunting We Will Go" over his ships Tannoy as he returned to base from an operation.
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