100 Years have Passed Since The War To End All Wars Began

BY JIM HOLLANDS

28 July 1914 was a beautiful summer day, but by the time the sun had set a terrible war had started that would not end for over four years.

By 11am on the 11 November 1918, when the armistice brought silence to the battlefields of France and Flanders, in excess of nine million souls lay dead, many never to be found and placed in a marked grave. Continue reading 100 Years have Passed Since The War To End All Wars Began

304 Air Training Squadron 1941

Len Fuggle brought in this wartime photograph of the 304 Squadron (Rye) A.T.C. pictured outside the south door of St. Mary’s Church.

How many can you recognise? Len put names to many of them. All the lads came from the town or the immediate villages. Continue reading 304 Air Training Squadron 1941