The Kinloss squadrons being addressed by the Lord Lieutenant of Moray
Large crowds gathering for the farewell parade
The words from the title of this post spoken by the 25th and last Station Commander of RAF Kinloss today in Forres as the Moray town bid farewell to the RAF. It was an emotional ceremony, RAF Kinloss and Forres have a special relationship, they are the same community really and it is hard to begin to imagine the closure of the base. But it is happening and today RAF Kinloss marched off into history watched by thousands of Moray citizens.
It is a very sad day that Kinloss is closing, and the surrounding towns will poorer for them leaving both financially and for their input to the social framework here.
ReplyDeleteMcDermotts closed after 20 years here but no one seemed to care much for the consequences, but today we see it with the empty highstreet.
Gurn, you must have been standing in front of me at one point. I have similar shots, (OK, yours are better) and one or two with rain on the UV filter too!
ReplyDeleteAs you say, an extremely sad occasion for Forres. There's an exhibition of Kinloss memorabilia at Forres Museum until the end of May.
There was a rumour that an army regiment returning from Germany might take over the RAF Kinloss camp, but another tale said they preferred to go to Leuchars because it's handier for St. Andrews for the golfers!
Kinloss web page
ReplyDeletehttp://www.raf.mod.uk/rafkinloss/
Lossie web pages
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/sdsrpersonnel.cfm
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/strategicdefenceandsecurityreview.cfm
Dear Anonymous (the last one)
ReplyDeleteTha final link you give, http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/strategicdefenceandsecurityreview returns an error (page not found)
Could you check that one please?
Jim clicked through on link from Gurn posted under anon and got to page straight away but here is the page link again
ReplyDeletehttp://www.raf.mod.uk/news/strategicdefenceandsecurityreview.cfm
it looks like .cfm missed of your link?
Sorry, Anon, still can't get anything on the latest link mentioned. Maybe the URL is being chopped short by the system on this blog.
ReplyDeleteCould you set up a TinyURL for it, do you think?
Links have to be copy and paste unless they are put in with a tiny piece of code.
ReplyDeleteTry this handy piece of code on this blog article
Thanks, Gurn, but I was using copy-and-paste, and still can't get the page.
ReplyDeleteHowever I looked around the RAF News site. Is this the item that our friend Anon was referring to?
http://tinyurl.com/3t4uh2p