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The Somme Bugle THE SOMME BUGLE NEWSLETTER OF THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION SOMME BRANCH Royal British Legion-Registered Charity Number 219279 ISSUE NUMBER 10 Branch BR3530 WINTER 2011/2012 Branch Website: www.rblsomme.org SUMMARY OF BRANCH EVENTS – Steve Berridge November 10th - Branch AGM, Dinner and Sing-a-long. The Branch held its Annual General Meeting at the Hotel De Ville, Mailly-Maillet in the afternoon followed in the evening with members and friends of the Branch meeting up for an enjoyable social evening at “Le Poppy” in La Boiselle. We were joined once again by our friends the Band of the Hampshire Constabulary who after dinner provided the musical accompaniment to our now traditional sing a long. November 11th – Armistice Day Services. Our annual Armistice Day service of remembrance was held at the Thiepval Memorial. This year was not as wet and windy as previous years but unfortunately it was very foggy and this meant that a planned flypast and poppy drop at 11 o’clock by a replica World War One DH2 Biplane did not go ahead. The band of the Hampshire Constabulary provided the music, the Branch Standard was carried by John Mathison and I carried the Union Standard. Following on from the RBL service we all formed up and followed the band down to the Thiepval village church for the French service and reception. In the afternoon the band and Branch Standard, this time carried by myself paraded at the Mailly-Maillet village war memorial. A Misty Thiepval 11-11-11-11 -Photo Bob & Marilyn Curry 1 November 11th – Armistice Day Service – Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium During the evening members of the branch crossed the border to attend the Last Post Ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. For me personally Ploegsteert is a special place. My Great Grandfather came here in 1915 when the 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion carried out its first tour of the trenches in Ploegsteert Wood and sustained their first casualties so for me being here on Armistice Day was quite special. In the cemetery over the road lies 16 year old Rifleman Albert French of the Kings Royal Rifles who was from my home town of Wolverton and the subject of a BBC documentary a few years ago called “Your loving brother Albert”. On this occasion I once again carried the Union Standard, the Branch Standard being carried by Bob Curry. Rod Bedford laid a wreath on behalf of the branch. I must admit that I was not particularly impressed by the ceremony itself, we two British Standards were made to feel a little uncomfortable by the way we were positioned on the flank and the way in which the Re-enactors seemed to given centre stage on the memorial itself! Their drill, turnout and behaviour left a lot to be desired and I say that as a reeanctor of some twelve years standing myself, the low point was the firing off of blanks throughout their stay including during the service itself, some may say it adds to the atmosphere but there is a time and a place! The service over we all met up again in the Auberge Café and enjoyed a curry supper and beer. The Magnificent Three at Plugstreet – Photo Marilyn Curry “Plusgtreet Shadows”-Photo Marilyn Curry November 12th – Dedication of Ypres Branch Standard and Menin Gate On the following day Rod and I once more crossed over into Belgium to attend the dedication of the Ypres Branch new Standard. The service was held in St Georges Church followed by a buffet lunch and beer! Afterward the new Ypres Branch Standard and our Somme Branch Standard took part in that evenings Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate. November 13th – Brookwood Military Cemetery – Remembrance Sunday Very early on the morning of Remembrance Sunday, Chris and I departed the Somme for our return to Blighty. However for both of us our duties were not yet complete for in the afternoon we attended the Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey to take part in the Service of remembrance at the American Cemetery as guests of our friends and branch members Craig and Lorna Rahanian. I carried the Branch Standard and Chris laid a wreath on behalf of the branch at this quite well attended event which was followed by lashings of hot chocolate and cookies! 2 Finally a Fanfare - By Rob Hewer On 18th December 1944, as part of Bomber Command’s campaign against industrial targets in Germany, 523 aircraft were assigned to a raid on the Ruhr town of Duisberg, north of Cologne. Eight Halifax Bombers did not return. One of the doomed aircraft was the four engine Mark III Halifax No: LV818 coded ZA-F of No 10 Squadron Royal Air Force based at Melbourne, Yorkshire. This aircraft took to the air from Melbourne airfield at 02.57 hours. Just after 0600 hours near the French village of Taillette (some 3 kms north west of Rocroi, and a few kms south of the Belgian border) F-Freddy collided in mid-air with another Halifax. This was Mk VII NP699 of 432 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Both planes fell to earth at a spot known as ‘Les Bernes’, just south of the Hamlet of Rouilly in the Ardennes. All eight crew of the RAF Halifax were killed. Six of the seven crew of the Canadian Halifax were killed. The surviving airman was the pilot of the RCAF Halifax, Flying Officer Max Krakovsky. He managed to use his parachute and landed near Bruly just over the border in Belgium, which had recently been liberated by the United States Army. This accident occurred at the time of the ‘Battle of the Bulge’. Hitler’s forces had attacked westward through the Ardennes in his attempt to divide and overcome the forces of the British, American and other allies then invading German Occupied Europe. Nonetheless Flying Officer Max Krakovsky was detained at gunpoint by US soldiers. They were not convinced that the Canadian pilot was who he said he was. At the time a rumour was circulating that German agents had been parachuted into the area. Fortunately for Max Krakowsky, a soldier in the platoon also originated from Toronto. By this lucky chance Max Krakowsky could quickly convince his captors of his identity by his knowledge of the Toronto area. Immediately after the crash the bodies of six airmen were recovered and temporarily buried by the American Forces at Fosse near Namur. Some months later the bodies of four more airmen were found and temporarily buried in the Marne Department. The body of Flying Officer John Henry Waldren was found in 1945 and he was buried in the village cemetery in Taillette, France, close to the crash site. In 1948 the body of Flying Officer Douglas John Mole was also found, and he too was buried in Taillette. In 1951 the body of another Canadian airman was found and he was temporarily buried and then re-buried by the Canadians at Choloy, France. The body of RCAF Flight Sergeant James William Green has not been found. He is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial near Egham Surrey. Also not found, the pilot of the RAF Halifax, Flying Officer Geoffrey Deller-Body whose name is also inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial. David Mole, the son of Flying Officer Douglas John Mole (one of the two airmen buried in Taillette) has campaigned for many years for the crews of these two Halifax Bombers to be officially commemorated. Finally he was successful. On the afternoon of 22 October 2011, at the French War Memorial at Taillette, the ceremony took place. Attending were the French Sous Prefect of the Ardennes Region, the Mayor of Taillette, a Senior Officer of the Royal Air Force, a Senior Officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force and representatives of Souvenir Francaise. Friends and family of both RAF and RCAF victims attended the ceremony and laid a wreath, as did the Representative of the Somme Branch of the Royal British Legion, Rob Hewer. His wife, Kate, took numerous photographs of the ceremony so that they could be shared with those who would wish to have a record of this moving event. After the speeches and before the wreath laying, the band of the nearby town of Rocroi played the national anthems of the four wartime allies. 3 Richard King, former RAF VC10 pilot, the Standard Bearer for the 10th Squadron Association led the parade from the village War Memorial to the village cemetery where the two Commonwealth graves are to be found. Accompanying him were representatives from Canadian Military Associations. Following were many vivid banners and dozens of Standards from French and Belgian Military and Resistance Organisations. For more information, pictures and names of the aircrew who perished and where they are buried see: http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/taillette2.htm The Memorial Plaque Photo Kate Hewer Wreath layers - Photo Kate Hewer New Memorial on the Somme I mentioned earlier in the events section about a replica World War One DH2 Biplane. This had come over to France as part of the ceremonies for the unveiling of a new memorial at Ligny-Thilloy to the memory of Royal Flying Corps Victoria Cross winner Major Lanoe Hawker who was shot down nearby, by the Red Baron on 23rd November 1916. The memorial was unveiled on the afternoon of the 11th November. The Lanoe Hawker VC Memorial – Photos Steve Berridge 4 As mentioned earlier the DH2 was unable to fly on the morning of the 11th November due to the fog but later on when the weather cleared it was able to take to the air and be the first DH2 to fly over the Western Front since 1918 and the following photo was taken.
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