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Tetbury – Remembering the AFC a century on
The rolling, green hills of the Cotswolds is hardly where you would imagine being a place that played a major role in the Great War, yet the historic market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire, UK was home base to 1st (Training) Wing Australian Flying Corps between 1917 and 1919.
Remembrance Day 2017 marks the centenary year of the 1st (Training) Wing’s arrival in Tetbury, and on this day Group Captain Carl Schiller OAM CSM (Retd), presented on behalf of the Air Force Association a bronze plaque paying tribute to the kindred relationship between the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) airmen and the Tetbury townspeople, and commemorating the airmen who died during the Wing’s operation from nearby Leighterton and Minchinhampton airfields.
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