16 Issue No. 41 A group of 17 members of 2624 RAF (Aux) Regiment Sqn plus Paul Grimley as Tour Guide visited the WW1 Battlefields between 10th and 17th May. Starting with 3 nights in Amiens and visiting the southern battlefields of the Somme. We called in at Bullecourt and were made welcome by the Town Mayor! The team moved on to the Northern Somme visiting the battlefields around Delville Wood, High Wood, Pozieres, Beumont Hamel and Thiepval Memorial where 72,000 men who have no known grave are remembered. Moving north to Arras the team then saw the battlefields and memorials around there including the spectacular Vimy Ridge Memorial. 2624 Sqn(R) RAF Regiment Battlefield Tour 2575 Sqn RAF Regt. at TocH Sept 1944, billeted there for 2 weeks. Tribute laid at Lochnagar Crater, The Somme, the largest man-made crater 1916. 2624 Sqn RAF (Aux) Regt. Sqn Association in the same spot at TocH, Poperinghe 15.5.25 The team at Thiepval Memorial to The Missing of The Somme. 72,000 names on this amazing monument.
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