The service in Appleton Thorn
A SPECIAL service was held in Appleton Thorn to mark Dutch Remembrance Day.
Held at St Cross Church it commemorated civilians and members of the Dutch armed services who have died in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the world since the outbreak of the Second World War .
On a dark, cold, windswept evening , The Vicar of St Cross and St Mathews held the service.
The nearby Royal Naval Air Station Station, HMS Blackcap, which is actually in Appleton Thorn, saw 66 fatalities between 1942 and 1958.
Two Dutch airmen who flew from the station are buried in the church yard, together with a number of other airmen and one female who died while serving at the nearby airfield.
The service is held each year on Dutch Remembrance Day .
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