Club Arnage

11:00am Friday I will be paying my respects to a Royal Canadian Airforce Crew at the memorial nera Arnage Corner. anyone interested in joining in meet at the
Arnage corner ticket office 10:45am.
Canada Phil  
 
 Hi,
 Rhino,
          Are you planing to join me this year? I have a bit of the history to share.
Mr Toad,
             Will you be making a "PASS"?
Anyone else planning to attend?

Good on ya Phil.  About the same time we'll probably be stopping to pay our respects to my great grandfather who died in WW1 and is buried just outside Rouen.

I feel it's particularly important as the number of WW1 & 2 vetrans dwindle that we re-assure them that in our comfortable and leisure focussed lives their sacrifice and those of their fallen comrades won't be forgotten.

HERE HERE to that

Phil,
Exactly where is the memorial, not sure if we make the 11.00 met, but would like to drop by at some stage.
Ian

me too

Phil - My Father was training in the Royal Canadian Airforce at the end of WW2...

I will think of you at this time, but on a happy note it's also the same time our chopper sqaudron takes off from MB...we'll have a toast in respect of real pilots before we set off!

I shall be joining you Phil, could have a couple of others as well.

We got a Canadian LM virgin with us this year Phil. He is originaly from Yellowknife and moved to the UK via Germany 10 years ago while in the R.C.A.F . Come over to HA have a few beers and say hello we will be flying a maple leaf windsock. We are not getting there until Friday morning so he won't be able to join you at the memorial

Phil,
Chop and the the boys always pay respects at Vimy, previously at Falais.
You guys have always taken a hard hit.
We'll be be wearing our respect this year for a far younger casualty.
See you at Poo bar dude.
Rusty

Nice snetement there Sprite II. I look forward to meeting you Rhino. Thanks Rusty they are all worthy of our respect. Ian I am told it is difficult to find without a sober guide. Leave the Arnage ticket booth on your left
walk/drive a few hundred metres and look for a faded sign in the hedge on your left at what looks like a dirt driveway turn left and follow this track until the memorial comes into view.
 Mr Toad sorry out  times coincide. I wanted to pick a time that most of us are up by as I am sure did you and also have to get into town later for the Parade.
 Bob I will try but have yeet to find HA.
Canada Phil

Rusty - thanks - a fine sentiment for a good one who we lost.   Seem to recall we did one of the flypast.

Mark

A BIG Thank you to Brian Liverpool boys and Rhino and his crew for turning out to the Memorial. Thankks guys.
Did anyone get a photo showing the attendees? i have some of the stone it's self but none showing the people.
Canada Phil

Sorry Phil, same as you only photo's of the stone.
Brian

Sorry Phil but i didn't have my camera with me. I will check with Rhino and the others to see if they took any pictures.

Cycling back from mulsanne corner early saturday evening me and a couple of our crew stopped at the memorial to pay our respects and have a beer. A police car pulled up alongside us and the gendarme asked us what we were doing. When we told him he also paid his respects, said thankyou, wished us well and drove off, a nice touch i thought.

Phil, pleasure to meet you and Brian. The only photo i have is of you in front of the memorial. I will pm it to you.
Glad to have made it, thanks for the talk about the crew. Can you send me the details and i will see if i can find out further details.

Hi Guys, I'm almost certain that i have an article in an old Flypast magazine i will still have.  I remember reading it back in 2003 and thought it a coincidence with my visit to LM just a few months away.

I'll have a dig around and see what i come up with.  The history of the area particularly the time around the D Day assault is very interesting.

Could be an idea to start pooling our knowledge and create a CA memorial for the troops that made the ultimate sacrifice.  That way they will be remembered.

What do you think?

Peter

Hi Peter , Good Idea lets see what we have.
Thanks Rhino I would like to see your photo. I took photos at the cemetery where they are buried. i will continue my reasearch into the mission they were on.
A friend of mine is actively involved in the restoration of a Halifax Bomber for the National Museum.
Canada Phil

Phil

My late Uncle was a bomb aimer in a Halifax bomber, and was based in Canada for a time during the war, I am sad to say that he died 29 years ago when I was quite a lot younger, & regrettably I never quizzed him on his exploits. However my Aunty is still alive, think I will have a chat with her to find out the why's & wherefores

It may be of interest, but there is also a Candian memorial at Brougtheroulde, a small village just outside Rouen.
If you pass thorugh that village as most of us do it could be worth a visit.