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Czech and Slovak SOE Training Memorial, Arisaig

 
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:35 am    Post subject: Czech and Slovak SOE Training Memorial, Arisaig Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's pictures of the unveiling on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ODb5oelVQ

and it has its own website

http://www.czechmemorial.org/
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Czechoslovak parachutists WWII memorial - Arisaig















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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anne

I moved this over to Highlands - Unit Memorials section after you added the photographs.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:54 am    Post subject: WMR (ex UKNIWM) number Reply with quote

This is WMR record 63846
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