Entry #: 108 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-11 17:54:47
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| Name: |
Steve Harris |
| Web Site: |
Remembrance Day Service at Tempsford |
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10 |
| Visitor Comments: A webpage is now up on the site, detailing the events of last weekend (link given above). Any donations of photos for that page by any TVAR member present on the airfield on Sunday will be gratefully received, and we'll add the best ones to that page. - Steve |
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Entry #: 107 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-09 19:00:15
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| Name: |
Jean Carlyle-Lyon |
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10 |
Visitor Comments: I also attended Tempsford this weekend, both at the Crown Pub, Gibraltar Farm Barn for the Remembrance Service and The Wheatsheaf Inn for lunch on Sunday. I had the strangest feeling when we drove through the gates and towards the runway. Someone said to me later "did you feel the Tempsford Shudder" - well, yes I did. I could just feel my mother around me and could just imagine her driving those airmen to their aircraft.
Thanks to everyone who made me and my husband welcome. It was a magical day. |
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Entry #: 106 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-09 12:45:33
-- Edited On: 2009-11-10 20:06:00
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| Name: |
Cathrine J Feldhahn nee Ward |
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10 |
| Visitor Comments: Thank you for all involved in this site. I found it very interesting looking up my Uncle Sergeant Leo Peter Ward, Air Gunner 138 Squadron 1943. |
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Entry #: 105 |
Entry Date: 2009-11-09 09:10:42
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| Name: |
Laura Black |
| Site Rating: |
10 |
| Visitor Comments: Yesterday, Remembrance Sunday I attended with my husband and Army and RAF colleagues from Chicksands, the wonderful service at 'The Barn'.We were all deeply moved and felt privileged to share the experience with such splendid people. Our special thanks go to the local Air Cadets for their bearing on parade and the poignant words of the vicar and to all the people who made this remarkable and worthwhile event possible.
Thanks to all, long may it continue!
Laura Black |
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Entry #: 104 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-26 14:57:37
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| Name: |
Bob |
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10 |
| Visitor Comments: To Karl Bettles
Karl, I have done some research for the son of F/Lt Bettles and can put you intouch if you wish. Drop me a line via my site www.tempsford-squadrons.info I also have copies of some papers relating to missions flown by Bettles while he was with 161 Sqdn. He was shot down whilst flying with 149 Sqdn.
Bob
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Entry #: 103 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-23 13:03:56
-- Edited On: 2009-11-10 20:07:00
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| Name: |
Karl Bettles |
| Site Rating: |
10 |
| Visitor Comments: Hello i wonder if you can help?
I am searching for my family tree ,and have heard that a member of the Bettles family worked on the airfield.
It would be interesting to find out who.
I do know that a Kevin Bettles was shot down over Italy,but i dont know if he flew from Tempsford.
I would be grateful for any information.
kind regards
K W Bettles
a very interesting web site,i must visit the barn!
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Entry #: 102 |
Entry Date: 2009-10-15 09:42:11
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| Name: |
Stuart Chesher |
| Site Rating: |
10 |
| Visitor Comments: Although the airfield is no longer there, an image of it is still in my head. I am 63 now but in the fifties I spent many happy sunny Sunday afternoons romping in the straw bales and climbing the control tower with my brother and our friends while dad tried to teach mum to drive on what I suppose was the runway. Even at that young age I sensed that there was once mystery associated with the site. Only much later did I gradually learn of what really happened here. My mental picture, still vivid today, of a sun warmed airfield, quiet and peaceful seems to sit well with the memory of the brave young people who gave all for their country. |
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Entry #: 101 |
Entry Date: 2009-09-12 08:10:49
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| Name: |
Elaine Mason |
| Site Rating: |
8 |
| Visitor Comments: Having lived in a village near Tempsford for 25 yrs I was unaware of the sacrifice these men and women made on our behalfat Tempsford. Your website is necessary to inform the next generation of what happened inorder not to forget. Thank you. |
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Entry #: 100 |
Entry Date: 2009-09-03 06:08:25
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| Name: |
Geoffrey Lee |
| Site Rating: |
10 |
| Visitor Comments: My father (Geoffrey W Lee) served in 161 sqdn Mar - May 1943 then returning to 487 sqdn. There are no entries in his log book over this period. Would love to find out anything of this period. Geoff Lee jnr. |
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Entry #: 99 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-18 16:25:58
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| Name: |
Julia Hawkins |
| Site Rating: |
9 |
| Visitor Comments: My mother Margaret Hall Seccombe b. 1919 was in the FANY and based at Gaynes Hall, nr St Neots which was a training place for SOE during WW2. She was admirer of Sue Ryder who was in the FANY [see her book 'Child of Our Time] as there is a lot about the Agents whom she called the 'Bods'. My mother drove those being dropped into Occupied Europe and looked after them whilst being prepared. It is likely now I realise that she would have driven them to Tempsford which of course is nearby. She implied that she became attached to some of them and I believe that she experienced a whole series of losses with possibly some guilt knowing their possible fate. I think she told me she drove Odette Hallowes describing her feet as bandaged and in slippers after having had her nails ripped out during interrogation by the Gestapo. I would be interested to hear of any information re Gaynes Hall etc. and any other FANY connections with Tempsford. |
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Entry #: 98 |
Entry Date: 2009-08-18 06:21:52
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| Name: |
Bob |
| Site Rating: |
10 |
| Visitor Comments: To Pete,
apology accepted. My main concern was with the comments regarding the state of the barn, so many people do not know how much better it looks now. One must remember that part of the camouflage of the airfield was that it looked like a working farm with a dilapitated barn.
I would certainly not wish to discourage people from remembering those who paid the supreme price and especially those who have no known grave.
If you would like to join us for an official Service of Remembrance please contact Steve (webmaster of this site) or me, through the site address I gave before. Either of us will be pleased to give you more information. |
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