
Remembrance Services in Plymouth and Holmsley South
29.06.2017 / 14:48 | Aktualizováno: 29.06.2017 / 15:58
On Saturday 24 June 2017, the Czech Defence Attaché Colonel Jiří Svatoš and his wife attended the Thanksgiving and Remembrance Service at the RAF & Allied Air Forces Monument in Plymouth. On Sunday 25 June, they attended an event in Holmsley South.
The Service in Plymouth opened the Armed Forces Day celebration. The event was organised by the RAF & Allied Air Forces Monument Committee in conjunction with Plymouth City Council. Among the attendees were highest RAF authorities, representatives of British Navy, British veterans and their descendants, Defence Attachés and local representatives of Plymouth City Council. Col Svatoš laid a wreath at the memorial and read the Ecclesiasticus 44 to commemorate fallen RAF airmen during WW2.
On Sunday 25 June, Colonel Svatoš and his wife attended the annual outdoor service at New Forest Memorial in Black Lane, Holmsley South. The event is commemorating the allied squadrons operating from 6 nearby airfields during WW2. The Czechoslovak squadrons were also deployed at new forest airfields (Ibsley and Beaulieu). The event was organised by charity organisation “The Friends of the New Forest Airfields”. The event was attended by local authorities, Defence Attachés from Australia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, British veterans and their descendants and Mr. Julian Lewis MP. Col Svatoš, alongside with the Slovak DA Col Gavlas, laid wreaths at the Memorial.

Col Svatoš and his wife with Lord Mayor for Plymouth Mrs. Wendy Foster, her husband and other guests