Branch Pilgrimage

On Tuesday the 22^nd of December members of the RAFA Costa Blanca Branch made a pilgrimage to the Royal Air Forces Association Remembrance Garden at the National Memorial Arboretum in the UK. Located in the heart of the country within the National Forest near Lichfield, the National Memorial Arboretum comprises 150 acres of trees and memorials devoted to the concept of Remembrance.
Their mission was to lay a wreath on the new Royal Air Forces Association memorial which HRH The Princess Royal officially opened on Monday 28th September 2009.
Due to the very bad weather conditions affecting the UK only Pat & Norman Scotting managed to complete the journey. The inspiration for the remembrance garden comes from the RAF Association’s Dedication - the end line of which is ‘we will remember them’.
The central feature of the garden is the RAF Association emblem- a three metre high stainless steel eagle with its wings aloft, perched on top of the world. The magnificent eagle is surrounded by a segmented RAF roundel separated into four quarters to depict the RAF Association at the heart of RAF welfare.