Double Hills Memorial Ride
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Meet & Greet. There is a 5 minute walk across a field to the actual location of the memorial.
1430 Hrs Double Hills Service of Remembrance begins. Brief History
The Double Hills Memorial Service, which remembers the 21 Sappers from the 9th Field Company (Airborne) Royal Engineers and 2 pilots from the Glider Pilots Regiment, who lost their lives on Sunday morning 17th September 1944, when their Horsa Glider RJ113 crashed into a meadow called Double Hills, in the village of Paulton, Somerset. These were the first casualties of the Battle of Arnhem – Operation Market Garden. They had earlier taken off with their tug aircraft, a Stirling bomber, from RAF Keevil.
1530 Hrs. Act of Remembrance ends.
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