Remembrance Service on Ashdown Forest

By Peter Lindsey

A Remembrance Day service was held on Sunday morning at the Airman’s Grave memorial on Ashdown Forest.

As always, it was a deeply moving occasion, with wreaths laid and respects paid to all those who have lost their lives through conflict.

Rev. Dr. John Caperon led the service, and Paul Gardiner performed the Last Post and Reveille.

Thanks were expressed to the behind the scenes team including sound engineer Paul, and all the many volunteers and Forest team staff who all make this event run smoothly.

To the six young men who lost their lives on Ashdown Forest in July 1941 in a tragic plane crash, we will never forget you.

First Pilot: Harry Fidler

Second Pilot: Vic Sutton

Observer: Wilf Brooks

Wireless Operator: Ernest Cave

Air Gunner: Stan Hathaway

Rear Gunner: Len Saunders

Inscribed on the plaque in their memory: “To live in the hearts of those left behind is not to die.”

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  • Peter Lindsey

    PETER Lindsey is a PR specialist, having worked in the local media in Sussex as a Newspaper Editor from 1990 to 2009. He is a now a Director at Ignite PRE and is also Editor of Bournefree Magazine online and in print, which covers Eastbourne and Hailsham areas.

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