Sofie Cacoyannis
Cyprus Reporter at Forces News
Cyprus Reporter: @ForcesNews 🎥📱 . Insta: @sofie_forcesnews TikTok: @sofiecacs Email: [email protected] 📩.
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1 week ago |
forcesnews.com | Sofie Cacoyannis
The Queen has laid the final poppy in a new installation at the Tower of London featuring 30,000 ceramic poppies to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The poppy is the flower synonymous with Remembrance. Now, within the grounds of the Tower, they are lining the walls, culminating in an eye-catching display on the south lawn, resembling a wound, to reflect the sacrifices made during the Second World War.
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1 week ago |
forcesnews.com | Sofie Cacoyannis
The RAF Falcons have kicked off the 2025 season at RAF Brize Norton as specially chosen crowds gathered to watch. Falling out of an A400m at 7,000ft, the Falcons showed off a new manoeuvre, the Helix, after perfecting the move during training in the winter months. Flight Lieutenant Alice Adams-Cairns, Officer Commanding, RAF Falcons, told BFBS Forces News the new move is the first time there has been an addition to the display for three to four years.
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1 month ago |
forces.net | Sofie Cacoyannis
I've been speaking to Mervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old Jewish British Army veteran. Mervyn fought in the Second World War in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Having been part of the D-Day landings in 1944 – he tells me the Légion d'Honneur is the medal of which he's most proud – he then found himself in Germany in April 1945. Eighty years ago today, British forces liberated the Nazi-run Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
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1 month ago |
forcesnews.com | Sofie Cacoyannis
I've been speaking to Mervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old Jewish British Army veteran. Mervyn fought in the Second World War in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Having been part of the D-Day landings in 1944 - he tells me the Légion d'Honneur is the medal of which he's most proud - he then found himself in Germany in April 1945. Eighty years ago today, British forces liberated the Nazi-run Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.
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1 month ago |
forces.net | Sofie Cacoyannis
Agnes Wanjiru's family have said they "have waited for too many years and been offered too many empty promises" after meeting Defence Secretary John Healey. The 21-year-old was killed close to the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK). Her body was found in a septic tank at the Lions Court Hotel in the town of Nanyuki, two months after she disappeared in March 2012.
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30,000 ceramic poppies purposefully placed around the Tower. This part of the installation on the south lawn is called ‘the wound’, a symbol of Remembrance for those who scarified their lives during #WWII. Particularly poignant as bombs fell on this lawn during The Blitz. #VEDay https://t.co/yqBbLPGfvy
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