Remembrance 2023

Annual Remembrance Commemorations at Green Park, London; Brookwood Military Cemetery; RAF Tempsford SOE Base & AFHG Lunch RAF Club – 10th to 12th November 2023.

Thanks to:  Sgt-Chef Lauriane Vert, Simon Horsington, Françoise Richardson, Cécile Coolen and Ian Titman for their photographs.

 

Remembrance of the French, British and Allied airmen at the Bomber Command Memorial, Green Park, London, on Saturday 10th November 2023.

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

The Annual AFHG/GPFA Remembrance Lunch at the Royal Air Force Club, Piccadilly, London

10th November 2023

 

 

           

 

  

       

   

   

    

     

         

 

 

              

 

 

GUESTS 2023

Sénateur Olivier Cadic                           Sénateur des Français

Hon. Sébastien Bidaud                          Ministre Conseiller de France

Amiral Hervé Hamelin                           Defence Attaché of France to UK

Colonel Xavier Rival                               French Air Attaché to UK

Group Captain Jonathan Warren     UK Air Attaché to France

Patricia Connell                                       Conseillère français de l’étranger

Group Capt Antony McCord                 Former UK Air Attaché to France

Marie-José Clayton                                   Pres. Ass. Nat Membres de l’ONM

Bénédicte Paviot                                       UK correspondent – France 24

Françoise Richardson                            Pres. Assoc Palmes Académiques

Iza Bazin                                                      Dir. Opérationnelle Air Legend

Arnaud Bazin                                             Air Legend Pilote

Julian Kowalski                                        Polish Air Force Memorial Cttee

Bernard & Monique Masson                ANMONM (Past Pres); AMAC,

Lahou Keita                                                Consultant aérospatiale

John Crowe                                                   Pres. Gallipoli & Dardanelles Int

Erica Horsley                                               Daughter 50 Sqd Comet evader

Sharon Spinos                                           Secret WW2 Learning Centre

Cécile Coolen                                                Film & Documentary Director

Gary & Julie Stern                                     Maisey Battery, Normandy

Liam O’Connor                                           Architect Ver-sur-Mer & Bombr Cmd

Annabelle Cardron                                  Curator / Est Mgr Château de Balleroy

Guy Audibert                                             Président AMAC en GB

Capt. Thibault Lacroix                           Base aérienne 113 de Saint-Dizier

Sgt-Chef Lauriane Vert                          Base aérienne 113 de Saint-Dizier

Josette Montgomery                                Assoc Mutilies, Anciens Combattants

Ian Titman-Reade                                     TVRA & Secret WW2

Jan Leeming                                                TV & Radio Broadcaster

Simon Horsington                                    Vice Pres. AFHG & ANMONM

Ian Reed                                                      Director AFHG /GPFA

 

 

The Annual French Remembrance Ceremony, Brookwood International Cemetery, Surrey, UK.              

11th November 2023

 

 

 

              

        

        

       

      

 

 

 

Former RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire. Home of Nos. 138 & 161  (Special Duty) Squadrons which dropped supplies and agents into occupied Europe for the Special Operations Executives (SOE) – 12th November 2023

The “Barn” (shown below) was used to equip agents and resistants and was the last place they left befor walking onto the adjacent runway and onto the aircraft – either a Lysander or Hudson.