Latest Updates
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Issue 17 now out!
We are thrilled to present the latest Thame Remembers newsletter. This edition focuses on our new website developments, including the Thame Remembers Google Map functionality. This work has resulted in finding a new Thame soldier raising our target to 214 casualties. Enjoy the read and please share with others.
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New Google Map feature
After months of hard work in the background by Steve Perry and Pentangle (Thame based IT consultancy), we are thrilled to have added new functionality to the website. You can now use a Google powered interactive map to find, locate and read about our fallen soliders. See here for details: View Map
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First cross delivery of 2016
Last Saturday, 9 January, saw the first Thame Remembers cross delivery of 2016. Thame resident Corporal Tim Jones of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, currently stationed in Germany, laid a cross at Hanover War Cemetery in memory of Lance Corporal Ronald Frank Harris, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, who died on 5 April 1945.
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Issue 16 now out!
We are thrilled to present the latest Thame Remembers newsletter. This edition focuses on our latest delivery in Bahrain, videos added to the BBC Oxford website from the battlefield tour and various material from Christmas during the wars. Click here to read the newsletter.
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Gulf Delivery
Another Thame Remembers cross was delivered last Sunday by Ann & Adrian Dite from Thame, who made the special trip to Bahrain whilst visiting their son in Doha for Christmas. They commemorated Warrant Officer Joseph Arthur Castle, who died in 1957 whilst serving in the Cyprus Conflict.
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The BBC Oxford coverage continues
Memories of the battlefield tour will forever remain in the archives of BBC Oxford, thanks to the amazing work of Victoria Cook and her colleagues. The videos that she has produced (and aired across four separate nights in November) are now available to be viewed on the following links: Film 1 (aired 6 November 2015) Film […]
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Issue 15 now out!
We are thrilled to present the latest Thame Remembers newsletter. This edition focuses on Remembrance Sunday, Chinnor and Clifton Rugby Clubs, the hugely memorable Battlefield Tour and BBC reporter Victoria Cook. Click here to read the newsletter.
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Dave reading the Ode of Remembrance
We thank BBC reporter Victoria Cook for images of Dave Bretherton (project leader) reading the Ode of Remembrance at Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. A proud moment for Dave, the project and for the town of Thame. Here is a short video taken at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9blF_3Vya8g&feature=youtu.be
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Battlefield tour delivery reports
It has taken a while, but we now have all the 40 or so completed battlefield tour delivery reports live on our website. Take a look at http://www.thameremembers.org/delivery-reports for details of the French and Belgium deliveries. NB they are in alphabetical order by solider.
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Gulf Weekly coverage in Bahrain
We are thrilled to have received a copy of The Gulf Weekly community newspaper for Bahrain which includes a two page colour feature on the Thame Remembers project. Adrian Dite has volunteered to deliver a cross to the grave of Warrant Officer Joseph Arthur Castle in December as he visits his son and family in […]