Category Archives: Not Forgotton

Circus 157 – remembered

Posted on 16 May 2013 by

Nejsou zapomenuti Not forgotten Malá pietní oslava na paměť 71. výročí RAF Operace Circus 157 proběhla 5.5. 2013 v podvečerních hodinách na vojenském hřbitově CWGC Ypres Town Extension v Ypres v belgických Flandrách. A discreet remembrance act commemoration the 71st … Continue reading →

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Not Forgotten – Scotland

Posted on 5 April 2013 by

Aberdeenshire: Dyce Old Churchyard, Dyce. Dyce airport was a Royal Air Force station during the 1939-1945 War, and an extension on the western side of the old churchyard was chosen by the authorities for the burial of casualties from the … Continue reading →

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Frantisek Weber – one of ‘The Few’

Posted on 8 March 2013 by

An enquiry in early 2011 by a private collector of Czechoslovak RAF memorabilia, to the Mayor of the Town Hall at Prague 6, regarding a possible memorial plaque on the house where S/Ldr František Weber had lived in their district … Continue reading →

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Not Forgotten – Wales

Posted on 20 February 2013 by

Flintshire: Hawarden Cemetery, Hawarden. There are now 2, 1914-1918 and over 30, 1939-1945 war casualties commemorated in this site. _______________________________________________________________ MACHÁLEK Jan, 21, Sgt, 57 OTU, Pilot * 03/08/21, Kunovice, Uherské Hradiště. † 28/10/42, Lower Hall Farm, Picton, Cheshire. Killed … Continue reading →

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Remembering their 100th – 2013

Posted on 14 February 2013 by

Czechoslovak RAF pilots who would celebrate their 100th birthday in 2013 January 30th HÁJEK Václav S/Ldr 313 Sqn pilot * 30/01/13, Prague † 14/06/99, Fairfield,​ Connecticut, USA 30th JAŠKE Josef S/Ldr 312 Sqn pilot / HQ London * 30/01/13, Nymburk, … Continue reading →

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Velke Hamry schoolchildren remember Josef Mohr

Posted on 15 December 2012 by

. Děti z Velkých Hamer vzpomínají na Josefa Mohra In February 2012, we published on the website, a biography of Josef Mohr, the navigator of 311 Sqn Wellington KX-B which had been forced to ditch into the North Sea after … Continue reading →

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Remembered in the Czech Republic 2012

Posted on 30 November 2012 by

. Czechoslovak RAF airmen remembered in their homeland in 2012 Pietní akty na paměť československých pilotů RAF v jejich vlasti v roce 2012. Prostějov – Airmen’s Memorial: Žatec – Airmen’s Memorial : Prague Dejvice – Airmen’s Memorial: Otaslavice – Josef … Continue reading →

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Jaroslav Hlouzek Remembrance Ceremony

Posted on 26 November 2012 by

. Smrt ve vlnách – příběh válečného letce Jaroslava Hloužka Death in the waves – the story of the war pilot Jaroslav Hloužek Letos uplynulo sedmdesát let, co ve vlnách kanálu La Manche zahynul Jaroslav Hloužek, pilot 313. československé stíhací … Continue reading →

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Rudolf Scholz remembered

Posted on 21 November 2012 by

. Sergeant RUDOLF SCHOLZ Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron Born 10.2.1924 Litvinov, Czechoslovakia Died 10.4.1945 Tain, Scotland Buried St John the Evangelist Church, Stoke Row, Oxfordshire Rudolf Scholz was born on 10th February 1924 in Litvinov, a … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Day – 11 November 2012

Posted on 3 November 2012 by

. Remembrance Sunday 11 November 2012 Remembering the Czechoslovak Airmen who died in World War 2 Vzpomínka na československé letce padlé v ve druhé světové válce 510 serving in the Royal Air Force who died 1940/45 510 českosloveských letců padlo po … Continue reading →

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