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Keptie
Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 928 Location: near Arbroath Angus
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: Czech and Slovak SOE Training Memorial, Arisaig |
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The Arbroath Herald of Friday 6th November 2009 reports in its pages that on Sunday 8th November 2009 a new Memorial will be unveiled at ARISAIG to the Czech and Slovak soldiers who trained as SOE Agents in Scotland during WW2 .
SOE allocated special training schools for Czechoslovaks near Loch Morar
( Ive not seen any other reports in the newspapers re this memorial being Unveiled on Sunday >).
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DelBoy

Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 4858 Location: The County of Angus
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Czechoslovak parachutists WWII memorial - Arisaig
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apanderson Administrator
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apanderson Administrator
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Adam Brown Curator

Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:01 am Post subject: |
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The first operation listed - Operation Anthropoid - was the code name for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, leading Nazi and Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Although the date is given as 1941 on the stone, the assasination was carried out in Prague on 27th May 1942. The two agents Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, who are both listed on the memorial, were parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December 1941, so the date on the memorial must be from the start of the mission.
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apanderson Administrator
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 2571 Location: Stirlingshire
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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I bought a wee booklet from the Information Centre which probably explains everything, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
I was a bit unsure which section to post the photos is, so as there was an existing thread I just added them to it.
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Adam Brown Curator

Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:20 am Post subject: |
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Anne
I moved this over to Highlands - Unit Memorials section after you added the photographs.
Kind regards
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:54 am Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number |
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This is WMR record 63846 |
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