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Category Archives: Cemetries
Visiting Brookwood
The post-WW2 Czechoslovak cemetery at Brookwood today.
Never Forgotten – Part 5 West Midlands and Liverpool
6 February 2020 From the notes of Ambassador Libor Sečka: Zápisky velvyslance Libora Sečky: That was a record! In the fifth stage of our quest to discover the graves and especially the stories of Czechoslovak soldiers in Great Britain, my … Continue reading
Never Forgotten – Part 4 Sussex and Surrey
Ambassador Libor Sečka set off to visit the graves of Czechoslovak airmen and soldiers also in the previous week. On his journey to pay his respects to the war heroes buried in Surrey and Sussex, he was accompanied by the … Continue reading
Never Forgotten Project – Cotswolds – 24 January 2020
Etapa č. 3 – Cotswolds – 24. ledna 2020 From the notes of Ambassador Libor Sečka: Zápisky velvyslance Libora Sečky: Map key: Mapy číslo : Cemetery: Hřbitov : Town: Město : 1 Yatesbury (All Saints Churchyard) Yatesbury 2 Chippenham (London … Continue reading
Never Forgotten Project – trip 1 to Kent
On 10 January 2020 the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London announced their forthcoming project ‘Never Forgotten’ to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. During 2020, the Ambassador H.E.Libor Sečka aims to visit all … Continue reading
Brookwood Christmas Remembrance 2019
For Christmas 2019, as in recent years, a team of our volunteers, again visited Brookwood to remember the Czechoslovak military graves there. Tak jako v předchozích letech, tak i o Vánocích roku 2019, navštívila skupina dobrovolníků Brookwood, aby si připomněla … Continue reading
Project CzRAF100 – part II
2018 was a historic year, not only was it the 100th anniversary of founding of the State of Czechoslovakia, on 28 October 1918, but also the 100th anniversary of the formation of the RAF, and also the 100th anniversary of … Continue reading
Vitezslav Rosik remembered in Ethiopia
Group Captain Vítězslav Josef Rosík was born 23 December 1895 in Bzová, near Bojkovice, Czechoslovakia. His schooling commenced with two years at Uherske Hradiste, then at High School at Uherský Brod and then onto the Technical College at Brno where … Continue reading
Christmas Remembrance at Brookwood
Vánoční zastavení na hřbitově v Brookwoodu. From an initial idea about the Czechoslovak graves at Brookwood, an initiative developed to place candles against each of the 130 graves so that those Czechoslovak airmen and soldiers were remembered at Christmas. Prvotní … Continue reading
Brookwood Remembrance bench
Vzpomínková lavička v Brookwoodu. Brookwood has been the location for many remembrance events to remember the Czechoslovak RAF airmen and soldiers who served in Allied forces during WW2; from State Presidents, Government Ministers, Ambassadors to a steady stream of Czech … Continue reading
