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AFHG Annual Remembrance Commemorations
AFHG / GPFA Annual Remembrance Events November 2025 & other associated annual events in UK & France AFHG/GPFA Annual Commemoration at the Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park, London, followed by lunch in the Presidents Room at the Royal Air Force Club, Piccadilly 8th November 2025 …
Read MoreThe Beginnings of WWII – Nanjing 1937 – Lin Shi
Fragments of Remembrance – as one of the “Big 4” allies of WWII, China’s horrific war began much earlier. The memorial to the 300,000 victims of the Nanjiin Massacre 1937 Where Memory Begins The Second World War ended with the Japanese surrender in Tokyo on 2nd September 1945. World War…
Read MoreFrogs, Drones and Weddings – Kateryna Ziborova
Coming from a war zone near you, and it’s getting closer. Is the West sleep-walking into war like Ukraine did? Europe is on low boil? Kyiv – 20th September 2025 Here in Ukraine during our 4th year of defence against the hostile russian invasion I detect no fundamental changes in the general population…
Read MoreMembership Application – Groupes Lourds – 346 & 347 Squadrons RAF
FR. Les escadrons français de bombardiers lourds n° 346 « Guyenne » et 347 « Tunisie » du Bomber Command de la Royal Air Force. Cliquez ci-dessous pour devenir membre de l’Association de l’escadron français de bombardiers pour les événements, les commémorations, les bulletins d’information et la recherche. Envoyer les formulaires remplis par courriel à:…
Read MoreAssociation Nationale Franco-Britannique
One of France’s oldest WW1 & WW2 Anglo French award making organisations directly connected to famous names of both conflicts and working today towards greater co-operation. The Association National Franco-Britannique (ANFB) was officially founded in 1933 by the Duchess of York,…
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04 March 2025 Award ceremony at the French Ambassadors Residence, London for the Association Nationale Franco Britannique. Several AFHG associates and members receive the silver cross (Chevalier) medal. 2025 09 February 2024 National Order of Liberation, Arc de Triomphe, Paris – AFHG is the only British representative at the commemoration of France’s highest WW2…
Read More‘That March, when the fear still was’ – Kateryna Ziborova
Her 3rd Letter from Kyiv, Kateryna reflects upon the beginning whilst missiles still are aimed daily towards Ukraine’s capital. Almost a year has passed since the full scale war against Ukraine began and stunned a peaceful nation. The world watched and admired the determination, resourcefulness and courage of its people. But as the months…
Read MoreLes lundis, un genre d’expérience particulier – Kateryna Ziborova
Dans sa seconde «Lettre de Kyiv», Kateryna Ziborova envoie quelques conseils utiles pour quand vous subissez une attaque de missiles. Après neuf mois d’agression et d’atrocités tout à fait outrageantes contre le peuple d’un pays européen démocratique, la tendance à devenir « las de la guerre » et à être blasé par la répétition…
Read MoreMondays, a Special Kind of Experience Kateryna Ziborova
In her 2nd ‘Letter from Kyiv’ Kateryna sends some useful advice for when you are under missile attack. (version français ici) After months of utterly outrageous aggression and atrocities against the people of a democratic European country the tendency to become “war weary” and blazé by each day’s repeated news of attacks and obscenities…
Read MoreA Letter from Kyiv – The Good Guys by Kateryna Ziborova.
Despatches from the Front Line by a writer and mother sheltering in her home whilst Russian missiles explode daily. Version française – clique ici: https://afheritage.org/une-lettre-de-kiev-les-braves-gars-par-kateryna-ziborova Kateryna Ziborova is a professional writer and author and lives in Kyiv with her 5-year-old daughter and has sent this to us on her mobile phone whilst they…
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