Latest Updates
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Issue 18 now out!
We are thrilled to present the latest Thame Remembers newsletter. This edition focuses on an award win for BBC Oxford reporter Victoria Cook, a report on our recent Poppy Factory visit and a lovely email from Sandra Choate in New Zealand (relative of Corporal Joseph Brown). Enjoy the read and please share with others.
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Victoria wins TV award!
A huge congratulations to BBC Oxford reporter Victoria Cook for winning a Royal Television Society award for “best feature within a news programme”. She was presented with her award at a ceremony in Winchester on Friday 4 March. To celebrate, we will be holding a small reception for Victoria in Thame in the next few weeks.
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Television award nomination for BBC reporter
Last October, when we took our Battlefield Tour to France and Belgium, we were very lucky to be accompanied by Victoria Cook, a BBC Reporter who subsequently edited and broadcast four three minute features about Thame Remembers on BBC South News. We are thrilled to learn that Victoria has now been nominated for a Royal […]
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Lieutenant Colonel Edsell delivery
Following the visit to the Poppy Factory, the party from Thame visited Kingston Cemetery to lay a Thame Remembers cross at the grave of Lieutenant Colonel George Alfred Edsell. The delivery was made by Allan Hickman.
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Group visit Poppy Factory
Last week a small group from Thame Remembers visited the Poppy Factory in Richmond, where many of the poppies and wreaths for Remembrance Day are manufactured for the British Legion. The visit included a presentation explaining the story of how the poppy became significant as a token of remembrance.
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New roll of honour page
Further development work from Pentangle and Steve Perry has resulted in a combination of two website pages: roll of honour and delivery reports. We now offer a fully interactive filter which allows browsers to select soldiers by delivery status (all, open, allocated or delivered). This has also created a webpage for each solider with all the […]
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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.