Perhaps the greatest challenge facing the Thame Remembers project was to deliver a cross to the grave of Warrant Officer AH Sutton, who is named on the war memorial in Thame, the difficulty being that he is buried in Dodoma Cemetary, 500km up country in a remote part of Tanzania. By a fortunate coincidence this […]
The latest Thame Remembers newsletter is now available for you to read. Read about our 2015 plan to visit Belgium and France (Battlefied tour), our Lottery funding and our lapel brooches… plus much more. Download issue 2 now.
Thame Remembers, the project challenging the people of Thame to deliver commemorative crosses to the graves and memorials of all the local men who have lost their lives in conflict (wherever they may be in the world) was launched at a special ceremony last Sunday, the eve of the outbreak of WW1. Following a very […]
One hundred years ago World War One was declared and hundreds of Thame’s young men left home, many of them leaving from Thame railway station, to join the fighting, some never to return from a war that killed millions.
Based on an original article by local reporter Sonja Francis, www.Thame.Net