We will hold our annual small service with a wreath laying at the airfield memorial at Hunsdon on Sunday the 16th Feb. all are welcome. Just wear good waterproof boots!
I tried, oh believe me I tried, to arrange something more substantial this year, but it was not to be. We were hoping to make a day of it on the actual anniversary with members of all three families of the aircrew lost on the raid in attendance. This would have involved a talk, not about the raid, but about the three airmen Sampson, Pickard & Broadley themselves. Unfortunately this fell through and we are back to our normal simple service. A shame indeed for the seventieth anniversary itself. I have had an email regarding a possible link with something the Mosquito museum wish to do, so its a case of watch this space.
But no flypast, (nothing in the air apparently at this time of year due to winter servicing) no big do like the Dambusters special 70th, in fact its all rather mediocre for one of the RAF’s most audacious operations..whatever the reasons behind the raid.
Members of the HAMG with George Broadley and Christopher Pickard, who met for the first time at the unveiling of Hunsdons Roll of Honour in June 2012. The first time a Broadley and Pickard have been back on the site of RAF Hunsdon since the Amiens raid.
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