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Category Archives: Memorial
Slovak Ambassador visits Battle of Britain Kent.
On 10 June, concluding a busy week in Kent for rememberance of the 88 Czechoslovak Battle of Britain pilots. H.E.Róbert Ondrejcsák and Col Vladimír Stolárik, Defence Attaché from the Slovak Embassy, London came the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge … Continue reading
Re-czeching the Czech Battle of Britain connection
Oživení české účasti v Bitvě o Británii On 8 June, Col Jiří Niedoba, Czech Defence Attaché, in his final few days in the UK before returning to the Czech Republic and retiring from the Czech Army, revisited Battle of Britain … Continue reading
8 May 2021 – Not just Runnymede
8. květen 2021 – Nejen Runnymede On the 76th Anniversary of VE Day, in addition to remembering the 149 fallen Czechoslovak RAF airmen who are named at the Air Forces Memorial, at Runnymede, the Free Czechoslovak Air Force Associates ltd … Continue reading
8th May 2021 – 76th anniversary of VE Day
The 8th May 2021 marks the 76th anniversary of VE Day – the end of WW2 in Europe. During their service in the RAF for that conflict, 512 Czechoslovak airmen, including 2 WAAF’s, from some 2512, were to lose their … Continue reading
Pribor RAF airmen remembered
The Czechoslovak RAF airmen from the Příbor district were remembered by a FCAFA volunteer who placed one of our bouquets at the Airmen’s Memorial. Jeden z dobrovolníků FCAFA vzpomněl na československé letce RAF z okresu Příbor a položil kytici u … Continue reading
Brookwood 12.12.20. – part I
On 12 December, the Czechoslovak graves at Brookwood cemetery were again remembered for Christmas, in an informal, covid-19 compliant informal event. Dne 12. prosince 2020 se opět konala vánoční vzpomínka u československých hrobů na hřbitově v Brookwoodu. This year we … Continue reading
Slovak Embassy Battle of Britain Remembrance visit
On Friday 30th October 2020, Ambassador HE Ľubomír Rehák, and Col. Vladimír Stolárik, the new Defence Attaché at the Slovak Embassy came to Kent to visit two significant Battle of Britain locations. The Kent Battle of Britain Museum: First stop … Continue reading
28 October 2020 – Runnymede
To commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the State of the Czechoslovak Republic on 28 October 1918, the 149 Czechoslovak airmen who are commemorated at the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede were remembered. Ve středu 28. října jsme … Continue reading
Czeching out the Battle of Britain.
Česká připomínka bitvy o Británii On 6 August Col Jiří Niedoba, Defence Attaché and CWO Tomáš Kašpar, Defence Attaché Assistant from the Czech Embassy London, made a private visit to the National Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel le Ferne, … Continue reading
South West Battle of Britain Memorial
With 2020 being the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a worthy project to remember the 544 fallen Allied airmen of that battle, eight of whom were Czechoslovak. More details of this worthy project where you can make your … Continue reading
