Category Archives: Memorials
Les Knight’s crash site and memorial
Teunis Schuurman, a Dutch writer and designer, has a huge website, much of which is devoted to pictures of wartime memorials and crash sites. On this page (which is very large — scroll about three quarters of the way down) … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Dortmund Ems, Memorials
Remembering Remembrance Days
The Remembrance Day poppies I was given as a child were the old type, stiff red paper with a wire stalk. Adults wore them in their button holes, twisting the wire behind the lapel to keep it secure. Children pushed … Continue reading
Filed under Britishness, Memorials, Remembrance day
Sherburn memorial pays tribute at last
Sherburn, a sometime colliery village in Co Durham, was the home of Flt Sgt Vivian Nicholson DFM, navigator of David Maltby’s aircraft AJ-J on the Dams Raid. Unlike most small communities in the UK it has never had a war … Continue reading
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