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Lest we forget...By Gary LyonOn the way back from the gym last week (no sniggering at the back there please), I stopped at a rural postbox at Barsham (between Bungay & Beccles). Behind it, not really visible from the road unless you knew it was there, there was a dedication plaque to the crew of a B24 shot down by a night fighter on 22nd April 1944. Seven of the ten crew died, of the remainder one died in action as soon as 9th May 1944 and another in August 1944. The sole survivor returned in 1999 to dedicate the remembrance. There are many of these small memorials in country lanes and churchyards, both in this country and abroad. Somehow they seem more touching than the mass rows of crosses of the big cemeteries (in Flanders, Normandy and even near Cambridge). Next time you see one stop & think for a moment. |