By Jonathan White
Nantwich gathered yesterday (January 12) to honour the 81st anniversary of Lieutenant Arthur L. Brown’s heroic sacrifice during World War II.
The memorial service, held at the Airman’s Grave near Shrewbridge Road, paid tribute to the 23-year-old United States Army Air Force pilot who gave his life to prevent a crash in the town.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich will hold its annual commemoration this weekend of the Second World War airman who gave his life to the town.
Lieutenant Arthur Brown was the heroic United States Army Air Force pilot who steered his out of control warplane away from the town.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Grave diggers are struggling to dig new plots at cemeteries in Cheshire East because of the size of some existing gravestones and items placed around them, a councillor said.
Cllr Joy Bratherton (Lab) said the council was at fault for letting the situation get out of hand and not ensuring people were aware of what they could and could not do.
By Jonathan White
The annual memorial service to remember the airman who sacrificed his own life to save others in Nantwich, took place yesterday.
First Lieutenant Arthur Leslie Brown, of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), died aged 23 when flying a Republic Thunderbolt type P-47D.
A heartbroken Nantwich couple have hit out at vandals who trampled on and damaged their son’s grave in Whitehouse Lane cemetery.
Police are probing the incident, which also saw damage to other graves in the cemetery.
Thieves stole the handbag of a pensioner while she visited a relative’s grave in Crewe, police have revealed.
The 72-year-old victim, from Hough near Shavington, had parked her car on Badger Avenue to visit the grave at Crewe Cemetery.
Grieving Nantwich families are being warned after graveside thieves targeted the town’s Whitehouse Lane cemetery.
A vase and flowers were stolen from the grave of one woman’s stepdad, leaving her mum devastated.
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