Memories of those we lost

The Forum functionality that underpins the Memories page will be discontinued by Wix (the service we use to generate and maintain this site) from March 2026. For this reason I have migrated all the posts to the new Groups Page so that we can continue to share memories together. Any new memories sho

When my close friend Christopher died in this tragic accident, I was reticent to go to his funeral, because I was 9 years old and didn’t comprehend what that was — and what was expected to be there. Later, I know I should have gone, because he meant so much to me as a friend. And - I have carried th

I was at a British boarding school, Badminton in Bristol. I was staying at my grandmother's just before returning to school and then on the BBC, came news of a plane crash. The face of one of my school friends was there on the television and I remember how shocked I was to see Debbie featured, as on

I was on this flight with my mother Carole and my father, Erno Parany. I was 5 1/2 years old at the time. My father died 10 days after the accident at RAF Halton. My mother and I were released from hospital some weeks later. We only returned to live in Kenya for a short time after the accident. My m

This picture reminds me of many happy visits we made to the various lakes including Langano, Awasa and Debra Zeit as a family. It's my two younger brother's Chris & Ken with our father Jack Townsend. Most likely the picture was taken by my mother. Very often we would meet other families there wi

I was able to return to the UK for the 50th anniversary of the tragedy and attended the Easter Day service at Berkswell parish church where my brothers funeral was held and where they are both buried. Some how it seemed fitting to start the 50th anniversary year celebrating the Easter Story with all

Today August 11th 2023, I finally found closure on a significant episode in my professional career as a nurse. I was able to view the Memorial Stone, currently being stored in the Embassy workshop, waiting to be installed in the sunken garden, that is located close to the Residency of the British Em

David in the Operating theatre instrument store I am a retired Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies, living near Newcastle upon Tyne. I was fortunate to hear a trail during the Today programme for the Life Changing programme made by Harriet Ware Austin. It took me back to a period when I played a sm

My Grandfather was a senior manager in the GPO / Post Office and after retiring he took up a UN Posting to Ethiopia to after a few months we all moved out after he had been 6 months in post. My first memories really start there as I was around 4 at the time we moved out and we returned in Sep 1

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One of my closest friends during my time at Warwick School was Christopher, a bond I hold dear and will forever remember. Our paths crossed the first day I started in 1970. We were about the same age, although he had been at the school a year before me, having just turned eight years old. Chris

Thinking of all of you today when we mark another year passing. They are indeed not forgotten. Thanks to all of you who have added recollections and memories that keep their memory alive.

Please let me introduce myself, my name is Robert Whittingham and I was the Steward on the Royal Air Force VC10 that flew the survivors, of this terrible crash, to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. I now presently reside in Swindon, Wiltshire. Here is my account: It was the morning of 20 April 1972. After a

My family were living in Ethiopia from 1970 until 1972. For us ex-patriot children, it was a blissful life, although this was not the case for so many Ethiopians. The only blight for my family and many others, was that my two older sisters Jane and Caroline, went to boarding school in England an