"Welcome to the Halifax Appreciation Society Homepage. I hope you enjoy your visit and don't forget to sign the guestbook.

I apologise for not being as prompt with email requests and updating this page. I plan to update the site as often as possible and thank everyone for sending in pictures and information.

If you have any personal enquiries, please email me on the address listed at the bottom of each page.

Thanks for visiting.

In honour of those who made

the supreme sacrifice

and the men and women

1942 - 1945

Lest We Forget

"The squadrons thundered off the ground tirelessly. Off they pelted those glorious, radiant boys. We were with them in sound and spirit but that feeling of lead in the stomach when they failed to return was all to familiar. There were so many, and all of them so young, and such a wicked, wicked waste. I mourned them then, now and forever..."

To view one of the following pages, please click on the corresponding button or link.

 To see some photos from ANZAC Day in Driffield, please click here.

 Thanks to MRS Eileen Slater, we are able to bring you a page honouring her brother, WOFF A.J. Pratt's War, please click here.

 Glenn Chapman has supplied some great photos, dedicated to his grand-father Douglas Birrell. Please click here to view.

CREW DEDICATIONS

• To view a page dedicated to Crew 180, please click here.

• For a page with operational photos from Crew 146, please click here.

• For a page dedicated to Crew 145, please click here.

• A page dedicated to Crew 103 thanks to Mr Greg Cameron. Please click here to visit the page.

Recently this page was approached by the RCAF Memorial Museum Expansion Fund Raising Campaign. The museum has to expand to enable the soon to be completed Halifax to be stored there. By clicking on the banner below you have the opportunity to save the artefacts in the museum and Canadian Aviation Heritage. Please help support this worthwhile cause. Thanks.

Thanks for visiting the Halifax Appreciation Society Homepage.  Please visit the Award Page to see the awards this site has been presented with. We would like to thank everyone who has visited the page over the past six years and making the Halifax Appreciation Society Homepage one of the top pages on this subject.  If you have any comments please do not hesitate to contact me via the email address at the bottom of this page.  Thanks.

Links to Halifax Related Sites

DirectoryScience
World War 2 Ex RAF
Halifax Bomber Productions at Park Royal Coachworks
The Canadian Aviation Historical Society
A Memorial To Those That Served.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Yorkshire Airfields.
Pacific Aircraft Models.

Links to other sites

John Van Uitregt's Homepage.

 

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The Airmen's Prayer. Written by Flight Lieutenant E. B. Impey, RAAF.


"My God, this night I have to fly and ere I leave the ground.
I come with reverence to Thy throne where perfect peace is found.
I thank Thee for the life I've had, for home and all its love.
I thank Thee for the faith I have that cometh from above.
Come with me now into the air, be with me as I fly.
Guide Thou each move that I shall make way up there in the sky.
And should it be my time to die, be with me to the end.
Help me to die a Christian's death, on Thee, God, I depend.
Then as I leave this mortal frame, from human ties set free.
Receive my soul, O God of love, I humbly come to Thee."

 

One night this airmen met his maker but left this poem to his friends. Since then many pilots have drawn courage from it.

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