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2022. Tuesday 6th September. Liz Truss appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth. Voted in by the Conservative Party, following the resignation of Boris Johnston.

2022. Thursday 8th September. Queen Elizabeth II died at 4.30 pm on Thursday 8th September 2022 at Balmoral, Scotland, aged 96. She came to the throne in 1952, aged 25, reigning for 70 years. Prince Charles is now King Charles III.

2022. 25th October. Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister on her 50th day in office.

2021. Ted Janes died in December 2021. He had been Chairman of the Parish Council and the Village Hall Committee for many years. He was a J.P. He ran a youth club. He was the inspiration of Hallmark and Village Day. The Happy Wanderers Walking Club, The Horticultural Society and many other Village Hall regular events were established on his watch. Go to Ted & Jean Janes for their full history.

2018. July 2018 by The Local History Group. For our exhibition in November we plan to celebrate not only the end of WW1 but also the centenary of the Royal Air Force, formed from the Royal Flying Corps in 1918. Several men who trained in those early days had homes here during WW2, by then high ranking officers.

Please get in touch if you can tell us more or knew any of the families personally, if you know of others or have photos we could copy. Anyone in the History Group would be pleased to hear from you or ring Rosemary Mortham on 01844 345863

A full history of each will be given at the exhibition, giving photographs, details of their lifetime careers, their honours and awards, families and their association here with other details such as the planes they flew.

Also included will be the history of Bomber Command together with the controversy it provoked.

And the Suffragettes. see 1913 Saunderton Railway Station Gutted by Fire

The celebration parade of the schoolchildren will be reported. see 1918 School Armistice Celebrations

The influenza pandemic of 1919 will be mentioned. see 1919 Influenza Pandemic