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23-08-2007, 09:00 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Didcot, Oxfordshire
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 | Runnymeade RAF Memorial Hi All I'm off to Runnymeade RAF memorial this bank holiday weekend, probably on the saturday. If anyone has any requests please let me know and i'll get them for you. Regards to All Mike
__________________ In rememberance of all the men from Didcot who served and died for their country in both world wars. Bless all historians for trying to keep their memories alive Lest we Forget |
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23-08-2007, 09:09 PM
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23-08-2007, 09:40 PM
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Kitty, I would think that Guy Gibson's name would not be on the Runnymeade Memorial as he has a known grave in Holland.On the other hand you will find all those declared as missing. If you look closely you will find a great many members of SOE F Section here. In the summer of 1991 I walked to the memorial through the woods up the hill from the main road.Typical summer, it rained heavily but I soon dried off in the relative heat and had a sobering walk round the memorial looking for names I could remember. Worth a liitle stay anytime you pass. | |
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23-08-2007, 10:00 PM
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| Hi Kitty, I have Guy Gibson's grave photo should you want it. I'm sure that this is going to be a very moving trip and has been a long time in coming. I'll certainly get you those general shots. Mike
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23-08-2007, 11:33 PM
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I would like a copy of Gibsons grave if you get a chance. Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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24-08-2007, 12:03 AM
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| I'll find it out for you spidge, its on one of my cd's which i'll have to dig out. Mike
__________________ In rememberance of all the men from Didcot who served and died for their country in both world wars. Bless all historians for trying to keep their memories alive Lest we Forget |
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24-08-2007, 11:32 AM
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| Mike, Hope you have a good visit to the RAF Memorial. You will find that all the stone panels have been cleaned and bought back to new, very impressive. By the way, I live just down the road from Runnymede.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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24-08-2007, 12:29 PM
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| Very sobering when you think that there are 20,337 names commemorated here. 1,387 were Australians. RAAF or RAAF attached to RAF. Does anybody have any idea where I could track down those Australians who joined and died in the RAF? I have been provided with a couple of photos that denote RAF yet their headstone states "of Australia". My 10,835 deaths does not list any of these! I would like to add them to my list.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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24-08-2007, 12:40 PM
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| A page from the register at Runnymede.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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24-08-2007, 01:12 PM
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| Hi Peter, Was the page general or info for me?
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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