17
th
April 2004
Alan Fields | Saw the Junkers being attacked by RAF Typhoons over Exbury village. |
Allan Green | Sick Berth Attendant at HMS Mastodon. Tended one of the dying German airmen. |
Nancy Hardy | One of the Land Girls who was working in a field to the east of Exbury village, when the Junkers appeared from nowhere with the two Typhoons in hot pursuit. |
John Hayward | Working on Little Thorness Farm, on the Isle of Wight, when the Junkers appeared overhead. It fired several red Very lights. |
Honor Johnston | Saw the Ju 188 flying westwards towards Exbury. It was under attack from the anti-aircraft battery at Lepe Farm. |
James Kyle, DFM | Typhoon pilot with 197 Squadron. Was airborne with pilots of 266 Squadron when the Ju 188 was intercepted on 18th April 1944. |
John Lambourne | Former Marine, stationed at HMS Mastodon in the run-up to D-Day. One of the first to reach the crash site. |
John Leete | Flying Films. Producer of "The New Forest At War" |
Marjorie Maidment | One of the Land Girls who was working in a field to the east of Exbury village, when the Junkers appeared from nowhere with the two Typhoons in hot pursuit. |
Kathleen Maskell | Wren working at Lepe House. Visited the Sick Bay at HMS Mastodon and saw dying German airman. |
Margaret Mead | Wren at HMS Mastodon. Saw dead German airmen outside the sick bay. |
John Meredith | Saw the Junkers being attacked from the anti-aircraft battery at Lynn Farm on the Isle of Wight. |
Sam Mundy | Despatch rider at HMS Mastodon. Saw the Junkers crash-land. Arranged for an ambulance to take the wounded to the sick bay. |
Barry Price & Guest | Barry's father-in-law, Jock Leal, was in the Royal Observer Corps and witnessed the Junkers incident from his observer post on the Isle of Wight. |
Leopold de Rothschild | Saw the Ju 188 being chased over the Exbury area by the two Typhoons. |
Arthur Sibley & Guest | Working in a nearby field when the Junkers came down. |
Phyllis Stephens | WAAF ambulance driver at RAF Calshot. Collected four of the casualties of the Junkers crash. |
Reg Wheeler | Witnessed the funeral and burial at All Saints Church, Fawley, on 21st April 1944. |
Neil Gregory | Telegraphist, C Troop, Combined Operations Bombardment Unit |
Other guests
Mr & Mrs Val Biro | Val Biro designed the front cover of Nevil Shute's "Requiem for a Wren" |
Mr & Mrs Alan Brown | Local historian. Author of "Twelve Airfields" about WWII airfields in the New Forest. |
Cyril Cunningham | Author of "The Beaulieu River Goes To War". |
David & Kate Dawson-Taylor | Nevil Shute Norway Foundation. |
Martyn Dryden | Nevil Shute Norway Foundation. |
Jenny and Dave Knowles & Lynda Edwards |
Dave Knowles Films |
Clare Murley & Guest | Fawley Historians. |
Marion Pollard & Family | Helped author with German translation work. |
Nick & Linda Shepperd | Woodfield Publishing - publishers of "The Exbury Junkers". |
Julie, Adam & Jenny Stanley | Author's wife and children. |
Dr Paul Stanley | Author's brother |
Exbury Gardens
Mr & Mrs Edmund de Rothschild |
Mr Nicholas de Rothschild |
Mr & Mrs R Chaplin - Jennifer is Mr Edmund's Secretary |
Annie Bullen - Press Officer |
Angus Harley - Managing Agent of the Exbury estate |
Nigel Philpott - Commercial & Marketing Manager |
Exbury Veterans Association
Mike and Irene Benton |
Mr & Mrs Clive Lester |
Marion & Stuart Loveland |
Maurice Passingham |