Running For The Few – Battle of Britain tribute runners to visit Tangmere museum

A team of runners will make their way from Westhampnett to Tangmere as part of a Battle of Britain memorial run.
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To mark the 80th anniversary of the Second World War battle, author and photographer Jonny Cracknell is leading a small team on a five-day, 80-mile run between significant fighter stations and locations.

The Running For The Few team was hoping to raise at least £3,000 in tribute to the nearly 3,000 RAF aircrew who served during the Battle of Britain, between July 10 and October 31, 1940, but has already raised £4,750.

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Jonny said: “Our objective is to raise as much awareness as possible, in this poignant anniversary year, for the courageous Few — the young men who defended Britain’s skies during 1940 from the relentless German Luftwaffe and an inevitable invasion.”

The Running For The Few teamThe Running For The Few team
The Running For The Few team

Tangmere’s Military Aviation Museum will be the finishing point for the penultimate day of the fundraiser next Thursday (October 8), when Jonny and his team will run from Westhampnett to the museum, via St Andrew’s Church in the Tangmere.

The run, which begins on Monday at the headquarters of the Aircraft Restoration Company in Duxford, will take in 15 sites that have a special significance to the Battle of Britain, many of them airfields from which The Few flew against the Luftwaffe.

After leaving Duxford the five-day run will also take in Fowlmere, Debden, North Weald, Hornchurch, Biggin Hill, Kenley, Croydon, Uxbridge, the Polish Air Force Memorial at Northolt, Bentley Priory and Manston before reaching Hawkinge and then the Battle of Britain Memorial at Capel-le-Ferne next Friday.

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Supporters can sponsor the team by visiting Jonny’s JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/battleofbritain80

101-year-old Gp Cpt John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last known surviving member of The Few101-year-old Gp Cpt John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last known surviving member of The Few
101-year-old Gp Cpt John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, the last known surviving member of The Few

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