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- Dr. John McCrae Tree Seat - Surgeon General - Canadian Armed Forces - World War One
- 299 Squadron RAF Memorial - Special Operations Flights - World War Two
- PO Bert Horan
- WO Jack Fry
- WO Basil Jaggard
- WO Reg Lowmanbaker
- WO Maurice Davis
- WO Gus Tyers
- 624 Squadron Royal Air Force ~ Special Operations Flights - WW2
- Humphrey Macare - Dutch Special Operations Executive - WW2
- David Haughton Finlayson ~ French Special Operations Executive - WW2
- Special Forces Signals Association - WW2
- Brigade Piron ~ Luxembourg - WW2 - Future Memorial
- Escape Lines Memorial Society - WW2
- Major Maurice Budd MC - V Special Force Burma and Royal Sussex Regiment - WW2
- Squadron Leader Vera Atkins and the women of the French section - Special Operations Executive - WW2
- Madeleine Bayard - Womens Royal Naval Service
- Yolanda Beekman - Womens Auxiliary Air Force
- Denise Bloch - First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
- Denis Borrel - FANY
- Muriel Byck - WAAF
- Madeleine Damerment - FANY
- Noor Inyat-Khan - WAAF
- Cecily Lefort - FANY
- Vera Leigh - FANY
- Sonia Olschanezky - Recruited in France
- Elaine Plewman - FANY
- Lillian Rolfe - WAAF
- Diana Rowden - WAAF
- Yvonne Rudellat - FANY
- Violette Szabo - FANY
- Annette Colton - Allied Special Forces Association volunteer who grew the Natzweiler Tree from a seed.
Annette's Memorial Way leads to Scarf's Gates, which commemorate the many Resistance Forces and units that helped free the oppressed nations of Europe and the Far East.
Through the gates and you will find our Friends Gardens, which commemorate our friends, relatives and members who are no longer with us.
- The Friends Gardens
- WO1 RSM Reginald Tayler - Royal Army Medical Corps and 22 Special Air Service Patrol Medic instructor
- Alex Smith age 9 - Lost his young life to cancer - gifted by Carolyn and Pete Scholey of Hereford
- Driver Jack Marshal - Royal Engineers and Desert Rat
- Carmen Reddick - Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders of Canada
- William Scroggie - 9th Gurkha Rifles
- Stimmies Point - The Stimpson Family WW2
- Henry Bennett - Royal Marine Commando
- Friends Tree Seat
Annette's Memorial Way loops into the Dieppe Raid Memorial, which commemorates the ill fated raid in August 1942.
- The Dieppe Raid Memorial in Honour of Operation Jubilee
- Lt. Col. C. Merritt VC - South Saskatchewan Regiment
- Reverand John Foote VC - Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
- Capt. Pat Porteous VC - F Troop - No 4 Commando
- Major General John Hamilton Roberts - Commander Ground Forces
- Captain John Hughes-Hallett - Commander Naval Forces
- Air Vice Marshall Trafford Leigh Mallory - Commander Air Forces
- Commemorating Canadians
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
- 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade
- The Essex Scottish Regiment
- The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
- The Royal Regiment of Canada
- 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade
- Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
- The Calgary Highlanders
- 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade
- Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal
- The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
- The South Saskatchewan Regiment
- 14th Armoured Regiment (The Calgary Regiment)
- 3rd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment - Royal Canadian Artillery
- 4th Field Regiment - Royal Canadian Artillery
- The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Machine Guns)
- Royal Canadian Air Force
- Commemorating United States Forces
- 1st United States Ranger Battalion
- United States Army Air Force
- 97th Bombardment Group
- Commemorating French Resistance Forces
- Commemorating United Kingdom Forces
- No 3 Commando
- No 4 Commando
- No 10 Inter Allied Commando
- Royal Marine 'A' Commando
- HMS Albrighton
- HMS Berkeley
- HMS Bleasdale
- HMS Brocklesby
- HMS Calpe
- HMS Fernie
- HMS Garth
- ORP Slazak (Polish)
- HMS Locust
- 9th Minesweeper Flotilla
- Royal Air Force Fighter Command - 11 Group
On the bank behind the Dieppe Raid Memorial a Plaque commemorates the Army Film & Photograpic Unit. Without which we would not have any images of war.
- Army Film & Photographic Unit
- Army Film & Photographic Unit Memorial
Annette's Memorial Way leaves Dieppe and heads for the 'Floret de Vosges', with 5 fir trees from the Vosges mountains of eastern France, which will commemorate a French woodsman and his wife who lost their lives whilst helping the SAS, evaders, escapers and refugees pass with safety through the woods.
From the forest go slightly uphill to the fine ash tree and gardens of the Reconnaissance Corps.
- The Reconnaissance Corps
- The Reconnaissance Corps
- 46 Reconnaissance Corps
To the right of Recce you will find two spruce trees growing together.
- Freeing the Resistance
- Mosquito Attacks - Future memorial
Immediately ahead now is the portland stone memorial dedicated to Popski's Private Army
- Popski's Private Army
- Popski's Private Army
- Major V. Peniakoff - General List
- Lt. Duncan Baxter - 1st. Derbyshire Yeomanry
- Cpl. John Cameron - Lovat's Scouts & 2 Commando
- Trp. Thomas Groghan - 3rd Hussars
- Sgt. Charles Curtis - RE
- Dvr. William Gaskell - RASC
- Pte. John Hunter - Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders & Special Air Service
- Sapper Richard MacDowall - RE
- Lt. Ian McCallum - 27th Lancers
- Sgt. David Porter - RE & SAS
- Tpr. Arthur Rogers - 56th Reconnaissance Corps
- Cpl. James Snape - 50th. Royal Tank Regiment
- Pte. Albert White - Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Sgt. D. Galloway - Royal Army Service Corps
- Driver J. Higgins RASC
- Sgt. w. O'Leary - 1st Parachute Battalion
- Sgt. F. Riches - 1st King's Dragoon Guards
- Sgt. D. Porter - Corps of Royal Engineers
- Lt. M. Cadell - Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- Capt. John Campbell - Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- Capt. J Caneri - General List
- Capt. R Yunnie - Black Watch
- Sgt. J. Beautyman - Royal Corps of Signals
- Pte. C. Burrows 0 RASC
- L/Cpl. A Cahill - RASC
- Sgt. E. Sanders - 2nd. New Zealand Expeditionary Force
- SSM. G. Waterson - 1st. KIngs Dragoon Guards
- Sapper F. Dobinson - Corps of Royal Engineers
- Sapper Cawthorn - RE
- Sapper L. Foreacre - RE
- Sapper Freeman - RE
- Cpl. D. Hodgson - Royal Artillery
- Sgt. J. Kineally - RE
- Cpl. R. North - Royal Irish Fusiliers
- Cpl. B. Owen - RASC
- Sapper A. Petrie - RE
- L/Cpl. G. Sonley - 16th/5th. Queen's Royal Lancers
- Sgt. S. Taylor - The Queen's Bays (2nd. Dragoon Guards)
- Lt. E. Thomas - RE
- Popski's Private Navy
- 28th Garibaldi Brigade
- 27th Lancers
- Porter Force
- Lt. Col. Andrew Horsbrugh-Porter
- Royal Canadian Dragoons
- Kings Dragoon Guards
- 145 Royal Armoured Corps
- 1 & 2 Canadian Field Regiment - Royal Canadian Artillery
- 2 & 5 Canadian Medium Regiment - Royal Canadian Artillery
- 12 & 13 Canadian Field Company
- 24 Field Regiment Royal Artillery
- 49, 151 & 310 Anti tank Battery - Royal Artillery
- 60 & 93 Anti tank Regiment - Royal Artillery
- 32 Platoon - Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
- 747 Bridge Company - Royal Army Service Corps
- 1800 Bailey Bridge Platoon
- 1820 Folding Boat Equipment Platoon - RCASC
- 168 London Brigade Signals Section
- 1/3 Essex Regiment
- 2721 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment
- Royal Westminster Regiment
- 4 & 7 Canadian Light Field Ambulance
- 1,2 & 5 Canadian Medium Regiment Platoons - RCASC
- 5 Army Jeep Platoon
- 81 Canadian Artillery Company - RCASC
- 1501 Artillery Platoon - RASC
- 3rd. Canadian Provost Company
Looping around the PPA memorial we come to the Breakaway Tree Seat Project 2005. 5 pieces of giant Sequoia tree were carved into tree seats and set in the Grove during 2005. These were sponsored by the Breakaway Survival Club of Hereford.
- Breakaway Tree Seat Project
- Andrew Rimmer REME - Breakaway Survival Club
- Chris Lewis - Breakaway Survival Club
- Gary Reid - Breakaway Survival Club
- John Probert - Breakaway Survival Club
- Mark Cooper - Breakaway Survival Club
- Aussie Fewell - 1st Green Jackets - Borneo
- C. Saunders - 1st Green Jackets - Borneo
- F. Hunt - 1st Green Jackets - Borneo
Just past Breakaway is a white memorial to Annette Colton, a volunteer worker in the Grove since 2003. Much of what has been planted was with her knowledge and gentle understanding of nature.
- Annette Colton Memorial
- Poem "Tis only we who grieve"
Annette's Memorial Way now leads to the Sun Room
- Inside the Sun Room
- Special Air Service memorial to those lost in the Falklands War
- Cpl. R.E. Armstrong
- Sgt. J.L. Arthy
- WO2. M. Atkinson
- Cpl. W.J. Begley
- Cpl. P.A. Bunker
- Cpl. R.A. Burns
- Sgt. P.P. Currass
- Sgt. S.A. Davidson
- WO2. L. Gallagher
- Capt. G.J. Hamilton
- Cpl. W.C. Hatton
- Flt. Lt. G.W. Hawkins
- Sgt. W.J. Hughes
- Cpl. P. Jones
- L/Cpl. P.N. Lightfoot
- Cpl. D.F. McCormack
- Cpl. M.V. McHugh
- Cpl. J. Newton
- S/Sgt. P. O'Connor
- Cpl. S.J.G. Sykes
- Cpl. E.T. Walpole
- Royal Green Jackets plaque
- 14 Intelligence Company plaque
- Breakaway Survival Club plaque
- Escape Lines Memorial Society bench
- Hereford Ex-Services and Hereford Welsh Club bench
- Don "Lofty" Large - Special Air Service bench
- SEALS plaques - US Sea Air Land Special Forces
- Just outside the Sun Room - Stimmies Stone from Strasbourg Cathedral
- Just outside the Sun Room - Special Forces Signals Association plaque
Looking towards the lakes you will find a small copse dedicated to the Soldiers of 22 SAS Regiment and those who served with them.
- Soldiers of 22 Special Air Service Regiment
- Battle of Mirbat Memorial 1972
- Major Mike Kealy - 22 SAS (Lost his life during training in 1979)
- Sgt Talaiasi Labalaba - 22 SAS & Royal Irish Rangers (Lost his life during battle)
- Sekonaia Takavesi - 22 SAS (Wounded during the battle - survived)
- Trooper Tommy Tobin - 22 SAS & Catering Corps (Died in October of wounds sustained during the battle)
- Bill Stoker - RAF & Sultan of Omans Airforce (Strikemaster pilot during battle of Mirbat)
- Sgt 'Lofty' Arthy - 22 SAS & Welsh Guards
- Steve Moores - 22 SAS & Coldstream Guards
- Bob Consiglio - 22 SAS & 40 Commando Royal Marines
- Taff Iles - 22 SAS & Royal Engineers
- Lt. David Morgan - 13 Flight Army Air Corps
- Cpl. Christopher Gibb - Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers
- Marine John Dunn - 45 Commando - Royal Marines
- 'Norrie' King - 22 SAS & Parachute Regiment
- 'Sailor' Maine - 22 SAS, Parachute Regiment, Royal Navy, Merchant Navy & Royal Hospital Chelsea
- 'Jock Thomson' - 22 SAS & Parachute Regiment
- Bravo Two Zero Memorial Tree Seat
- Bob Consiglio - 22 SAS & 40 Commando Royal Marines
- Dave Denbury - 22 SAS
- Steven Lane - 22 SAS
- Vince Phillips - 22 SAS, Parachute Regiment & Royal Marine Commando
Look now towards the River Tame and you will find a copse in honour of Commando Forces.
- Commando Forces Copse
- Operation Frankton - Cockleshell Heroes - Future memorial
- Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment plaques to Operation Frankton
- Special Boat Service plaques
Walk out of the Sun Room towards the railway viaduct and directly ahead is a post, which marks the place of a new Sun Dial Memorial to Phil Curass, who sadly died in the SAS Helicopter Crash during the Falklands War 1982.
- The SAS Falklands Sun Dial
Just past the Phil Curass Sun Dial the Bravo 2 Zero Memorial is on your left and the Cockleshell Heroes Memorial on your right. Head down the Grove towards a small orchard of 8 apple trees.
- Falklands Resistance & Fighting Islanders Orchard with a willow Goose inside.
- Terry Peck - Chief of Police and head of the Falklands Resistance - Future memorial
- Fighting Islanders - Future memorial
- Doreen Bonner - Falklands Islander - Future memorial
- Mary Goodwin - Falklands Islander - Future memorial
- Susan Whitley - Falklands Islander - Future memorial
From the Falklands Orchard walk towards the viaduct and here is an area under development in commemoration of Airborne Forces.
- Airborne Forces Memorial Garden
- 2nd. Battalion Ox & Bucks Light Infantry - Future memorial
- Glider Pilot Regiment - Future memorial
- Royal Engineers - Future memorial
- Pegasus Bridge Memorial - Future memorial
- William Jenkins QGM - 3 Para - Future memorial
- Airborne Forces Tree Seat
- Arnhem Tree
Updated 23rd January 2013
by Mike Colton, Secretary, Allied Special Forces Association, P.O. Box 32, Hereford HR1 9DF
Grove Inventory: -
44 Memorials - 133 Individuals commemorated - 86 Allied Units named
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At the start of Annette's Memorial Way you will find our gardens dedicated to: -