Nº 5 December 2011
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61st Anniversary Remembrance Against a mountain backdrop, not disimilar in shape to the Montgó that claimed their lives in 1950, Wing Commander Jim Holland, the RAF Station Commander at Gibraltar, placed a commemorative RAF wreath among the memorial graves of the seven dead airmen, who all died in the 5th December tragedy. Wing Commander Holland was accompanied to the North Front Cemetery in Gibraltar on 5th December 2011, by Lt Col (Ret’d) Stuart Green, who recorded the visit for our readers, and reflected that the 19-year-olds at the time of the crash, Air Craftsmen 1st class Neville Jones from Merthyr Tydfil, Roy Owen Ouseley from Shawbury and Peter Field Thorne from Oswestry, would now only be 6 months into their 80s. The We are grateful bodies were taken from the Montgó and buried to Jávea with full military honours. Tourism Councillor Toni Miragall, and his Town Hall The Poppy Appeal colleagues for agreeing that Closer to home, Roger Dawes, Chairman of the Town Hall Tourist Jávea Branch of the Royal British Legion tells us Offices be the principal that public generosity has resulted in a local total, pick-up points for this for the 2011 Jávea Poppy Appeal, of 11.044,37 Directory. €uros, an improvement of 945,88 €uros on last No other publication year. Members distributed, collected (and FOR Jávea and ABOUT counted the content) of more than 120 boxes, in Jávea distributes 2,500 free Jávea, Benitachell, Moraira and Denia. The copies each month INTO Sponsored Walk raised 2176 €uros and the Fun Jávea. There are NO Day held at Digby’s Bar in Jávea another €800 PAID advertisements in €uros, none of which would have been achieved this issue. without YOUR public support. Avda. del Pla, Calle Pescara, 5 03730 JAVEA Tel: 96 646 1848 Fax: 96 579 5 411 Store opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8:30am - 9:00pm December Sundays: 10:00am - 3:00pm www.overseas.es eMail: Javea@overseas.es