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These pages are dedicated to all individuals who died, or were
seriously injured flying in, operating from, or working to support
a
Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules
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During my years at RAF Lyneham - the home of the RAF Hercules,
I know these comrades proudly served as members of …
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Royal Air Force Station Lyneham
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1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions,
Parachute Regt
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47 Air Despatch Sqn,
Royal Corps of Transport
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the Brigade of Ghurkhas
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the Royal Marines
& Special Boat Squadron
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the Special Air Service
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Polliciti Meliora
[ Having Promised Better Things ]
As one who, gazing at a vista
Of beauty, sees the clouds close in,
And turns his back in sorrow, hearing
The thunderclouds begin.
So we, whose life was all before us,
Our hearts with sunlight filled,
Left in the hills our books and flowers,
Descended, and were killed.
Write on the stones no words of sadness –
Only the gladness due,
That we, who asked the most of living,
Knew how to give it too.
Frank Thompson, Royal Artillery 1940 - 44
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