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Category: World War Two
Gnr Alan Herbert Hartshorn ( – 1944) – Find A Grave Photos
Source: Gnr Alan Herbert Hartshorn ( – 1944) – Find A Grave Photos
1921-1944
Poppys are Plants NOT Politics
Attended a great talk at Hinckley Methodist Church yesterday.
“Lest we Forget” Greg Drozdz told us the story of the annual Poppy Appeal and how it started. He also spoke on some of the names on the War Memorials in the Church.
Duxford IWM
Argents Mead – Ducks and Memorial
This is the ‘moat’ at Hinckley’s Argents Mead.
When I was young there was just one bossy Swan called Jasper in that water. We would take bread to feed him.
The memorial statue.
Trip to France
Another trip to Duxford
Return Trip to Duxford
I needed a hug, so my daughter asked us back to Duxford to meet up with her and the grandchildren. A brilliant day.
We headed for Concord as we had been too late on our last visit to go inside the cabin. I worked on the design and drawing of parts of the prototypes in the 60’s and saw the emergency parachute equipment on the schematic displayed in the cabin. I had designed a fancy ‘switch’ that needed to be turned and pulled to deploy the massive parachute to slow the plane down if it came in to land to fast. The switch was turned and pushed again to disengage the chute when stopped.
Fred Hartshorn 