☐ THE FIRST EVER BHOC WALK
Friends Car Park, Ashdown Forest
19^rd January 2014

☐ BHOC AGM
The Tudor Hall, Old School House, Cuckfield, West Sussex.
23^rd March 2014

The Club’s first AGM took place at the familiar Cuckfield venue on a lovely spring day. Officers and committee were formally elected, and reports from several committee members were delivered regarding their responsibilities. Questions were taken from the floor. After the close of the meeting, everyone descended upon some excellent light refreshments and we had an excellent chance to mix and chat.

☐ REMEMBRANCE AT THE AIRMAN’S GRAVE ☆ Ashdown Forest
13^th April 2014

Junior members, Rose and Ethan, placed a Remembrance Day poppy on behalf of the BHOC at the Airman’s Grave during a walk on Ashdown Forest.

The site’s name is misleading, as this is not the grave of a single pilot at all, but is a memorial to the six young members of a RAF bomber crew whose Wellington plane crashed at this location when returning from an aborted flight to Cologne in 1941.

Apparently, they were part of a one-hundred aircraft mission, but tragically experienced engine problems on the outward flight and attempted to return home. The large aircraft crashed into the hillside.

There is something especially poignant about this small, simple, stone structure set in such an isolated, beautiful, open landscape.