NOT FORGOTTEN ~ SUN ROOM MEMORIALS

These are the names listed in and outside the Sun Room at the centre of the Grove and they commence with the plaques over each entranceway to Jack Hesmondhalgh, Air gunner and Radio Operator who served with 101 Squadron Royal Air Force during WW2.

  • Remembered Out of Service or Civilian
  • Jack Hesmondhalgh ~ RAF 101 Squadron & Chairman Allied Special Forces Association
  • Hughes Meier ~ Brigade Piron
  • Don Large Seat ~ Wiltshire/Gloucestershire Regiments & 22 SAS
  • Alex Spence Seat ~ 22 SAS
  • Ron McKeon ~ Founder of the 264 Squadron RAF Memorial
  • Ruth Tong ~ Wife of Bob Tong 2 SAS WW2.
  • IRAQ 2008
  • Nicholas Brown – Parachute Regiment & 22 SAS
  • FALKLANDS 1982
  • Falklands 1982 ~ Helicopter Crash 19th May 1982
  • D Squadron
  • John Hamilton ~ Green Howards & 22 SAS
  • Lawrence Gallagher ~ BEM ~ 9 Squadron Royal Engineers & 22 SAS
  • Phillip Currass ~ QGM – Royal Army Medical Corps & 22 SAS
  • Sidney Davidson ~ Parachute Regiment & 22 SAS
  • John Arthy ~ Welsh Guards & 22 SAS
  • Paul Bunker ~ Royal Army Ordnance Corps & 22 SAS
  • Raymond Armstrong ~ Royal Green Jackets & 22 SAS
  • Edward Walpole ~ Royal Green Jackets Att. 22 SAS
  • G Squadron
  • Malcolm Atkinson ~ Grenadier Guards & 22 SAS
  • Patrick O’Connor ~ Irish Guards & 22 SAS
  • William Begley ~ Royal Corps of Transport & 22 SAS
  • William Hatton ~ QGM ~ Royal Marines & 22 SAS
  • Philip Jones ~ Welsh Guards & 22 SAS
  • William Hughes ~ Welsh Guards & 22 SAS
  • John Newton ~ Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers & 22 SAS
  • 264 Signals Squadron
  • Michael McHugh ~ Royal Signals
  • Robert Burns ~ Royal Signals
  • Stephen Sykes ~ Royal Signals
  • Paul Lightfoot ~ Royal Signals
  • Forward Air Controllers
  • Garth Hawkins ~ Royal Air Force
  • David McCormack ~ Royal Signals

OTHER TRIBUTES IN THE SUN ROOM

22 SAS ~ Taliaisi Labalaba ~ Battle of Mirbat 1972

Wooden Club honouring Labalaba who lost his life during the Battle of Mirbat 1972.
Small Tag honouring Labalaba

1st & 3rd Battalion Belgium Para’s

1st Bn. Para Diest 1953-2025 & 3rd Bn Para ~ Major Claude Morin.

Remembrance Sunday – Stirling Lines – Hereford

  • Remembrance Sunday Stirling Lines Hereford
  • Poem by Scarf Jones – Royal Green Jackets/Joint founder of the Allied Special Forces Association 1999.
  • I think of you when parading at the regiments memorial clock. Remembering your fitness, knowing your fighting stock. But beware young troopers crossing mountains, jungle or sand, Complete each mission carefully to beat this clocks ever moving hand.
  • Its time will wait for no one that’s written deep in its ticking face. Ready to name troopers who fail to win the race. I will watch the skies for your return, from countries near and far. Knowing your strength in surviving and use of the northern star.
  • I’m with you daily like a spirit at your side, Passing the areas where comrades have fought and died. To be there with you with knowledge I would like to share. Remembering my own hardship and those you will have to bare.
  • So as you move in silence remembering the pilgrims law. To go a little further like many have before. Leave no sign of entry, leave no shadows cast, leave only your professionalism as others in the past.
  • One day I hope to hear the sound of spinning rotor blades, Knowing your mission competed as you skim the forest glades. We will have no bandsmen playing, no bugles or a flute. Just smiles and friendly handshakes followed by a sincere salute.
  • Scarf Jones – Royal Green Jackets

PAGE UPDATED 7th November 2025