War Memorials

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Malta .Apologies if these have been seen before.

Fort St Elmo, Regia Aeronautica Bomb Memorial.

Cheers Mike

I do not know why this and my later posted lay down ! Anyone ?

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Malta, Upper Barrakka .Various memorials.

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Royal Malta Artillery Memorial WWII ,at Floriana Malta.

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Paris Pere Lachaise Cemetary, Jacqueline Giraud 1924-2003, despite a quick google I cannot find much about her..anyone able to help ?

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Paris,Adjutant Ludovic Jacquinot

Translation, In This House Adjutant Ludovic Jacquinot One of the Group of Angels Fell Gloriously on August 26 1944.

Again I cannot find any specific details.

Cheers Mike

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Fricourt German WWI Cemetery ,France.

Located on the Pozieres road.

Cheers Mike

[Wilko]

I recently visited Lashenden Air Warfare Museum at Lashenden Airfield in Kent, southeast England.

A few weeks before I had come across a very small memorial plaque in the Kent village of Westbere. The memorial is Dedicated to two RAF pilots who lost there lives in the skies above Kent during the long summer of 1940.



As I was engrossed in the exhibits of the museum and reading the details of various aircraft remains I stumbled on Flying Officer Franciszek Gruszka



This lead me to look for Pilot Officer John Bland and after a long search, I also found his details as well.



When I took the photograph of the Memorial in Westbere that day I had little thought that I would then stumble on a museum that would put faces to those engraved names.

I spent quite a bit of time there that day and will be visiting again once the world starts to return to normal following Covid-19.


The museum is filled with an amazing wealth of exhibits, aircraft engines and parts all excavated from crash sites. And on a good summers day you may even see the two seat Spitfire MK IX 'Elizabeth' taking to the skies over Kent.

The collection has British, German & American aircraft engines, as well as parts of the first Me109 to crash in England during World War 2. There is also a large section of fuselage from Me109 W/Nr 3737 the personnel aircraft of German “Ace” Werner Molders that blew up over Marden in 1940. There are also hundreds of parts of Spitfires, Hurricanes and American aircraft with the details of the pilots that flew them.

Another main attraction of the museum is one of only 6 Fieseler Fi 103R4 Reichenberg Piloted V1 Flying Bomb which is a must see if you get the chance.

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I'd like to dedicate this post to Flying Officer Franciszek Gruszka & Pilot Officer John Bland and the 'FEW' who never returned home.
Wilko

[andrzejku98]

Hello Wilko,

Many thanks for your post, I sincerely hope that you do not mind me posting a few more photographs of Franciszek Gruszka.



Ppor pil Franciszek Gruszka pre 1939 in Poland



Franciszek Gruszka Funeral in 1975





2 photographs of Franciszek Gruszka grave at Northwood Cemetery.



Photograph of the Memorial plaque to both Pilots,

Best wishes

Andrzej

[Wilko]

Thank you Andrzej for the extra photos of Franciszek Gruszka and his funeral and grave stone.
Ken

[Wally6]

Since its Memorial Day I'm sharing the memorial at my university that's dedicated to Alumni/students that died during the Vietnam War. Every year until now due to the epidemic the Schools religous body would hold a prayer for these individuals and everyone who laid down their life for Freedom