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17th July 2023 – unveiling of SECRET WW2 blue plaque honouring Lt-Colonel André Hue.
initiative, generously funded by the Gerry Holdsworth Special Forces Charitable Trust. Grateful thanks to:...
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9th July 2023 – annual picnic and ceremony at Wormelow, Herefordhire in honour of Violette Szabó.
; annual picnic and ceremony at Wormelow, Herefordhire in honour of Violette Szabó, F Section, SOE. This year we staff
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Sunday, 2nd July 2023 – Belgium Remembers
- July 2, 2023
- 14:00
- Brookwood Military Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey

Upcoming Event at Tempsford
- July 1, 2023
- 10:00
- Also July 2, 2023 - Stuart Memorial Hall, Tempsford

Our First, Small Scale, Outdoors Event of 2021
- April 4, 2021
- 10:00
- Brookwood

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day in COVID-Restricted November, 2020
- November 8, 2020
- 10:00
- Liss
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September 18, 2023
“A young Australian who joined the French Resistance, worked undercover for British intelligence, and helped to save thousands of lives in war-torn France was guillotined by the Gestapo in 1943 after he was betrayed by a British double agent.
“Yet Corporal Bruce Dowding’s bravery and ultimate sacrifice have been largely forgotten because France’s attempt to award him its highest national honours – the Croix de Guerre and Légion d’honneur – came up against his own country’s bureaucracy.“
September 16, 2023
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September 12, 2023
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September 9, 2023
The museum will also display strong evidence that Chanel collaborated with the Germans in occupied Paris, including transcripts of postwar interrogation of three Nazi officials who all separately name her as a trusted source.
“The new evidence doesn’t exonerate her. It only makes the picture more complicated. All we can say is that she was involved with both sides,” said Cullen.
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