The Tewitt Lane Memorial
Oakworth air crash site
2005 Memorial service

The memorial service is always held in January on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the crash.

This year it was held at 2.00pm on Sunday 2nd January, 61 years to the day.
50 people attended the ceremony.

Tewitt Lane Memorial main page
Previous Memorial services
2004 memorial service
2005 memorial service
2006 memorial service
2007 memorial service

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Awaiting the start of the service

Reverend Allen Holmes gives the address

Laying flowers and wreaths

A minute's silence

The flowers and wreaths at the stone

Canadian Forces Attaché Lieutenant Colonel Lee Smith and Pat, his lady wife.

Also present were Max Friebel, the nephew of the Pilot - Ernest Glass, and Philip Handley, the great nephew of Wireless Operator - Jack Henfrey.

Order of service
Welcome and gathering prayer
Reading
Act of remembrance and 1 minute's silence
Prayer and laying of wreaths
Prayers
Closing hymn: Abide with me.
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

I need Thy presence every passing hour.
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

The Blessing

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