Great video. We were at Beachy Head on 30th September and were treated to a Hurricane and then a Spitfire flying alongside another aircraft (don’t know which type but no doubt someone will know from the photo below)
It was a lovely sunny afternoon, perhaps the film was taken that day?

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PM sent Tony.

Funnily enough, this week I was visiting the converted railway carriage museum at Rayne Station in Essex which had a photo of ‘Mild and Bitter’. It was based at Andrewsfield, just a couple of miles away, and apparently was named in The Swan pub in Rayne.

Don’t forget the Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park . . . the Cabinet War Rooms too.
As your interest is WW2 have a look at the faces of old buildings in London, many still have the scars of Blitz bomb and shrapnel damage evident.
Enjoy your stay!

As you probably know, Sgt John McVay is buried in Ware New Cemetery alongside two other Hunsdon airmen, Canadians Sgt Donald McCullough and Flt Sgt Clinton Chute.
I was in touch with a relative of Sgt McVay’s in New Zealand when researching the Roll of Honour Memorial.

Do you plan to display the parts you found?

Hello James,

Have you a copy of ‘Three’s Company’? If not here is a section mentioning your grandfather:

On 29th December Flt Lt M F Edwards in EJ803 was shot down by a 109 of JG27 north of Rheine. He had just returned to the squadron after suffering injury during harvest time at Newchurch. He was sent to Halton RAF Hospital with a septic foot, then to the West Country flying target tugs. He returned to No.3 on 8 December, and on 25th ‘had a squirt at a Me262’. He was killed on his ninth flight after return.
A Kiwi who had joined No.3 in December, Harold W Longley logged on 29th ‘Eddie and Slade-Betts are missing on morning sortie’. F/O Slade-Betts was in JN803, also shot down by KG27 north of Rheine.
This sortie was led by Sqn Ldr J F Thiele DSO DFC** RNZAF. His notes for 29th December read ‘A/R (air raid) Rheine Munster .55′ 109 destroyed – Ken Slade-Betts and Eddie missing’.

Best of luck in your search.

Jim.

Werner Christie?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Hosewinckel_Christie_(officer)