June Events Newsletter - special edition

Welcome to this special edition of the newsletter.

We are taking this opportunity to provide you with information on forthcoming events involving the Commission.

It was a pleasure to meet so many of you at the Dunkirk Commemorations, and here we take this opportunity to provide you with an update and some footage taken by our staff.

Please let us have any feedback it is always a pleasure to receive your comments.

Remembering Fromelles Exhibition - Imperial War Museum: opens July 2010

Remembering Fromelles: a new cemetery for a new century

Imperial War Museum, London
Opens July 2010

FREE ENTRY

Using specially commissioned photographs, this exhibition traces the story behind the first new Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery to be built in nearly half a century.

 In May 2008, after several years of painstaking research and investigation, a number of group burials dating from the First World War were identified at Pheasant Wood, near Fromelles in northern France. A year later, archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology began to excavate the graves and by early September 2009 they had carefully removed the remains of 250 British and Australian soldiers, buried behind German lines after the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916. The British and Australian Governments asked the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to oversee the operation and to create a new military cemetery at Fromelles.

Further information from the

• Commission's Fromelles website and the
• Imperial War Museum website

Armed Forces Day - 26 June

Armed Forces Day

Armed Forces Day is Saturday 26 June 2010. The day is an annual opportunity for the nation to show support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community: from currently serving troops to Service families, and from veterans to cadets.

Across the country people are getting involved: communities are holding local events and businesses are showing their support. The National Event is to be held in Cardiff, although this is just one event being held in support of Armed Forces Day.

Further information can be found on the Armed Forces Day website

Operation Dynamo - Dunkirk commemorations

The Commission was delighted to participate in the Dunkirk commemorations and even more delighted to be presented with an information panels settlement for our exhibition at The Remembrance Museum of Dunkirk manned by staff from our France Area office. It was a pleasure to meet more than 2,000 members of the public during the event.

One of our members of staff accompanied one of the 'little ships' during their crossing, filming some of the Commission's cemeteries and memorials to those who fell at Dunkirk and.speaking to some of the veterans who took part. Have a look at his new video which is available on our website.

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Following our last newsletter when we asked if any of you had been involved, Mr Earp contacted us.  He was one of a group of volunteers in Ramsgate, who organized a day of celebration on 26 May in Ramsgate this year .He hopes that this will lead to an annual event in Ramsgate commemorating Operation Dynamo.  His group have produced a website, which provides information for next year and also about the commemorations this year. 

 Further information can be found on the Operation Dynamo Ramsgate website
 

Dedication of Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery - 19 July

Arrangements are now fully underway for the commemorative events taking place at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery.

• If you have applied for an e-ticket, tickets are now being despatched.

• There is still time to sign up for an e-ticket if you would like to attend, please contact: Service Personnel and Veterans Agency providing the following information:

• The name of all those who wish to have tickets
• A contact address and email address if you have one 
• More information is available on the CWGC website

• If you have an e-ticket and are travelling to the event from the United Kingdom and are considering Eurostar - please keep an eye on the Commission website and Fromelles website for updates.

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary weekend: 4-5 September

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary weekend: 4-5 September

Later this year, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will be participating in the Battle of Britain Air Show to be held at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

Come and visit us at our marquee where we will have information about the Commission and a full range of information sheets will be available. For more details about the show visit the IWM Duxford website www.iwm.org.uk
 

Forthcoming Events - Special newsletter

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*Imperial War Museum website

*Armed Forces Day website

*TWGPP

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