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Remembering Week 5
Wednesday, December 11th 2024
War can highlight the bravery of otherwise ordinary men and women but can also starkly illustrate the role of luck that can mean the difference between survival and tragedy.
For Bombardier Charles Armson it was both.
Aged 18 Charles Armson volunteered and was quickly on the way to France with the Royal Horse Artillery. He soon progressed to the rank of Bombardier (equivalent to corporal) and for bravery in the field was awarded the Military Medal. The MM is a high award for bravery ranking below only the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
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Remembering Week 4
Thursday, November 28th 2024
Wartime service didn’t end after VE and VJ days in 1945, many served long after that in mopping up operations, peacekeeping and preparing for defending the nation in the much changed and dangerous post Second World War world.
Women played a significant role during the conflict and afterwards. They also sacrificed their lives usually not in battle but almost more poignantly with illness (TB was still a killer) and by ill luck. But the sacrifice and tragedy was the same.
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Remembering Week 3
Monday, November 18th 2024
In the Second World War women were not allowed to fight alongside men in the frontline services but they played a vital part in the war effort often close to danger, and often paid with their lives.
Like their male services comrades they were usually achingly young serving as WAAFs in the air force and Wrens in the Navy as well as the nursing corps in all three service arms. In 1938 the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the ATS, was formed as the Army’s uniformed women’s service.
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18 year-old awarded Victoria Crossfor fighting mid-air blaze
Monday, November 11th 2024
The “Bomber Boys” who headed across the dark Channel and into the face of blistering attack from German fighters and ground batteries were at the highest risk of any branch of the services. The crews were young and pilots were trained as quickly as possible and thrust into front line service, gaining experience under fire. Around half of the crews didn’t make it back and combat missions were not the only danger - many perished in training exercises over home territory.
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