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

 

                 

              

        

          

                 

 

 

 

AFHG/GPFA Lunch at the Royal Air Force Club, Piccadilly, London W1,

8th November 2025

 

      

       

       

          

        

      

       

       

 

The Assoc. Nationale Franco Britannique – award of the Chevalier Medal 

The Association Nationale Franco Britannique was formed in in Paris in 1933 by HRH Duchess of York (soon to become Queen Elizabeth) and French Presidents René Coty and Albert Lebrun. The aim of the award, made to French and British combatants, was to maintain the spirit of the 1904 Entente Cordiale and especially the ties formed between France and Britain during World War One.  General De Gaulle continued this during and after World War Two for outstanding combatants, special agents and resistants.  Today there are over 26 branches across France and a British group. In parallel with the Allied Forces Heritage Group, its aim is to acknowledge and encourage those who work to maintain the commemoration and history of both world conflicts and promote the Franco British alliance. 

 

   

 

 

Chevalier Medal – Guy Audibert

Former French Marine Special Forces, President of AMAC & Vice President ANMONM

 

                   

 

 

Chevalier Medal – Sheryl Green

President of Tempsford Aviation Museum (former air base where Allied agents and resistants transited to and from France); historian and lecturer on wartime special operative activities in France.

 

              

 

 

Chevalier Medal – David Harrison

                       Researcher, author, archivist and specialist in wartime Special Operations Executive F (French) Section agents, resistants and associates.

 

              

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance – The Royal Albert Hall, London – 8th November 2025

 

                        

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

Remembrance Sunday – The Cenotaph Parade with Gallipoli & Dardanelles International – 9th November 2025

 

                        

                

        

             

     

          

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

   

                          

 

 

 

 

        The French National Memorial, Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey,

11th November 2025

 

          

          

       

           

          

       

           

           

 

 

Unveiling of the new vitrine display about women special agents and resistants by Brigitte Williams at Lycée Charles de Gaulle, Cromwell Rd., London – 10th November 2025

 

         

 

 

13th November 2025 –  German Embassy, Paris.

70th Anniversary of the formation of the Bundeswehr

with Ambassador Stephan Steinleinand, Defence Attaché General Markus Reinhardt

& Military Attaché Col. Carsten Schrehardt

             

        

Defence Attachés Hungary and Canada    

 

16th November 2025 – Arc de Triomphe, Paris – 85th Anniversary of the Founding of the Ordre de l’Liberation – re-igniting the Flame of the Unknown Warrior.

Attended by Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Alice Rufo, General of the Army, Thierry Burkhard, & Ambassadors and diplomatic staff from UK, Australia & New Zealand. The AFHG/GPFA wreath was laid by Ian Reed and Frédéric Goldberg.

 

      

       

        

         

      

      

      

       

 

 

 

Grateful thanks for photo images supplied by John Crowe, Dr Françoise Richardson, Lin Shi, Simon Horsington, Josette Montgomery, Caroline Broch, Cécile Coolen, Frédéric Goldberg and Claire Paccalin.    

 

 

 

 

 

2023

10th to 12th November

Annual Remembrance Commemorations at Green Park, London;  Brookwood Military Cemetery; 

RAF Tempsford SOE Base & AFHG Lunch RAF Club

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.