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Operation Desert Storm

Tornado Tribute Tour of England rolls to an end

2021-06-27T16:06:28+01:0025 June 2021|Events, News|

One van tyre punctured Two friends united Ten days completed Fourteen Air Force friends and colleagues remembered Thirty years passed Six hundred and eighty miles covered £28.5k raised so far (including Gift Aid) The Tornado Tribute Tour of England has finished in Washington, County Durham, ...

Tornado Tribute Tour visits NMA

2021-06-23T09:45:00+01:0022 June 2021|Events, News|

Tornado Tribute Tour of England stops to remember at National Memorial Arboretum  On day five of their ten-day, 690 mile cycle from St Eval in Cornwall to Washington, Tyne and Wear, RAF veterans Mal Craghill and Martin Wintermeyer visited the National ...

Welfare Case Study

2021-02-18T09:19:31+00:0018 February 2021|News|

Welfare Case Study: After John nearly died, the RAF Association was our lifeline...   When ex-pats Tina and John Wren visited their native Scotland in summer 2017 they expected to stay for just a few weeks. Tina needed to spend a short time ...

Connected for Life

2021-03-11T11:02:17+00:0016 February 2021|News|

Connected for Life: Tornado Tribute Tour of England Update. As part of our ongoing activity marking 30 years since the first Gulf War, we wanted to consider the role of friendship during conflict and beyond and being connected for life. Mal Craghill ...

Tornado Tribute Tour Update

2021-03-24T10:02:16+00:001 February 2021|News|

Tornado Tribute Tour of England Update- Gulf War veterans honour fallen colleagues with charity bike ride.   Mal Craghill and Martin Wintermeyer have completed five of their planned eight rides to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the first Gulf War and to commemorate ...

Tornado Tribute Tour

2021-06-03T12:07:20+01:0020 January 2021|News|

Tornado Tribute Tour of England - Gulf War veterans honour fallen colleagues with charity bike ride.   To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 1991 Gulf War, of Operation Desert Storm and Operation GRANBY, and the contribution made by RAF aircrews, two RAF veterans are planning a 670-mile bike ride visiting grave sites of ...

Thirtieth Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm

2021-01-17T12:03:28+00:0017 January 2021|News|

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, the campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi forces.  The US-led Operation Desert Shield started in August 1990, with the British military operations code-named Operation GRANBY. Operation Desert Storm, the combat phase, started on 17 January 1991 and lasted ...

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