To celebrate both our 40th anniversary and the 80th anniversary of VE Day, we were honoured to welcome Chris Finney to lay a wreath at Tregonning Hill’s war memorial and light our mini-brazier. Chris is a British Army veteran who, in 2003, became the youngest recipient of the George Cross at the age of just 18. He is also Chairman of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association.
As part of the celebrations, we also hosted a WWII reflection exhibition to explore the lives of those brave men of Germoe who are commemorated on the tall granite cross at the summit of the hill, the experiences of those on the Home Front in the local area, and the crew who died on board the Bristol Beaufort bomber that crashed in the larger quarry adjacent to the hillfort in 1941.
The exhibition was a real hive of activity, with nearly 100 people exploring the history of Tregonning Hill, sharing their memories of the war and creating celebratory flags to mark the occasion.
