11/11/2021
At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. War was over.
21 years later, WWII began. Old Andrean Neville George Stokes, eager to serve, secretly travelled to the UK and joined the RAF. His plane was shot down in flames on a night bombing raid in 1941, but he enabled his crew to eject safely before he perished in the flames. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously.
Today we remember Neville and all who have given their life in the line of duty. Lest we forget