Commemoration Services

Operation Wildhorn

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Commemoration Services

20 April 2008

Harrod family members with AK Veterans

On Sunday 20 April 2008, in honour of the attendance of the Harrod family, a special servive was held in the Matczyn village church, attended by many members of the local community, the AK veterans, the Polish army band and guard of honour, as well as local dignitaries.

AK Veterans enter Matczyn church

AK Veterans

Guard of Honour, Matczyn church

Army and AK Veterans in Matczyn church

After the service, the band led the guard of honour and AK veterans on the short march to the monument, where a number of speeches and presentations were made, wreaths were laid and the honour guard fired a triple volley in memory of the epic flight in 1944.

The band leads the march from the church ......

... followed by the guard of honour and AK veterans ...

.... with local dignitaries and villagers bringing up the rear.

Prof. Stanislaw Woloszyn presents a plaque to Patricia Harrod

Zdzislaw Bednarczyk lays a wreath

The guard of honour fires three volleys.

26 April 2009

In April 2009, Jonathan, Stephen and Tamsyn represented the family. Tamsyn laid a wreath with a wonderful note to her grandfather. We dined as usual with Wojtek and Kasia at our favourite restaurant, Tamara.

Tamsyn's note to grandfather

Tamsyn in the lounge of the great Lublinianka Hotel

18 April 2010

April 2010 was the period of zero air travel in Europe thanks to an Icelandic volcano! Undeterred the Hero Boys (!) drove to Lublin in Patricia Harrod's 14-year old Rover 200 - a truly epic 20-hour journey, much admired by our hosts.

Stephen delivered a 30-second speech in pidgin Polish, to the delight of all Polish speakers.

Zdzislaw then took us all to lunch in Belzice.

Lunch in Belzice pub, courtesy of Armia Krajowa

THE NEXT COMMEMORATION SERVICE WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY 20 APRIL 2012.

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