Latest Updates
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Cross deliverers needed
The holiday season is getting under way, so do think about where you are going this summer and whether there may be a grave or memorial that you could visit on behalf of Thame Remembers. Even if its not you, your neighbour or friends may be going somewhere where we need a cross delivered. Surprisingly […]
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Thame Remembers Tribute Installation
Thame Remembers – the unique and ambitious project challenging the Thame community to place a Thame Cross at the grave or memorial of every serviceman from Thame who lost their life in conflict during the last 120 years, wherever in the world that may be – paid a special tribute at the Remembrance Service […]
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Warrant Officer AH Sutton
Perhaps the greatest challenge facing the Thame Remembers project was to deliver a cross to the grave of Warrant Officer AH Sutton, who is named on the war memorial in Thame, the difficulty being that he is buried in Dodoma Cemetary, 500km up country in a remote part of Tanzania. By a fortunate coincidence this […]
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Issue 2 now out
The latest Thame Remembers newsletter is now available for you to read. Read about our 2015 plan to visit Belgium and France (Battlefied tour), our Lottery funding and our lapel brooches… plus much more. Download issue 2 now.
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100 Years on – Thame Remembers – Press Release
Thame Remembers, the project challenging the people of Thame to deliver commemorative crosses to the graves and memorials of all the local men who have lost their lives in conflict (wherever they may be in the world) was launched at a special ceremony last Sunday, the eve of the outbreak of WW1. Following a very […]
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A Century on, Thame Remembers
One hundred years ago World War One was declared and hundreds of Thame’s young men left home, many of them leaving from Thame railway station, to join the fighting, some never to return from a war that killed millions.
Based on an original article by local reporter Sonja Francis, www.Thame.Net