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Wim Kersten van Meijer & Siegers in Oosterbeek heeft op Facebook een pagina gemaakt met de titel Airborne Bookshop No1 – Oosterbeek. Als je niet fysiek de winkel kunt bezoeken is dit een prima mogelijkheid om op de hoogte te blijven van nieuwe uitgaves en herdrukken. Het bestellen van boeken is mogelijk via de link naar de site van Meijer & Siegers.

https://www.facebook.com/Airborne-Bookshop-no1-Oosterbeek-108236623896522/

Op vrijdag 17 september herdenken we de Slag om Arnhem met een voorprogramma in de Eusebiuskerk, een herdenking en kranslegging in de Berenkuil en Bridge to Liberation -screen experience. De avond met onder andere DI-RECT, Dionne Stax, Ellen ten Damme, Ruben Hein, Pjotr, Dennis Kroon, Nazmiye Oral , Phion en Introdans kun je ook dit jaar thuis beleven via de livestream of televisie via Omroep Gelderland. Lees meer

 

This document, compiled and written by Roger Cook, pays tribute to Jack Grayburn, whose remarkable story unfolds over the following pages. Many of our club members will mark the 70th anniversary of his death by visiting Arnhem this year, to play some rugby, have some fun and then we will all gather at Jack’s grave to pay our respects. It will be in some ways a typical rugby tour, following in a long, long tradition of such events at our club. In other ways it will be like no other tour, an emotional experience both for the oldest members and the youngest. We cannot truly comprehend the events of the bridge too far because we were not there, when Jack Grayburn stood up and confronted mortal danger, doing his job, protecting his men, at whatever risk. He was, by all accounts, an extraordinary man from an extraordinary family. Roger recounts their story and includes the moving citation for his Victoria Cross, as well as other accounts from those who knew him, and knew his family. Do read their story, and let us never forget Jack Grayburn and those other brave men from our rugby club who lost their lives at war, heroes all.

Peter Osborne, President of Amersham and Chiltern RFC. 2014.

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