Personal accounts from the families and communities connected to these memorials. The names and dates are in the records. The stories behind them live here.
A friendship remembered across three generations
Stuart Lorraine's parents were close friends of Sergeant Kenneth Gerald Gardiner, who was killed when Stirling LJ930 was lost. By coincidence, Stuart's parents now have a memorial bench opposite the very church where Kenneth is buried in Chalford, Gloucestershire.
A daughter's journey to her father's crash site, eighty years on
Jackie Simpson's father, Sergeant Guy Leonard Edwards, was the sole survivor when Halifax LW696 was shot down over Daubhausen on the night of 30 March 1944. The crew had only one parachute. They gave it to him because he was the youngest — just twenty years old.
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