Dagenham and Rainham MP Steps in to restore RAF Pilot’s Memorial.
Margaret Mullane MP has acted quickly to ensure that the war memorial on Freeborn Gardens, Elm Park dedicated to Wing Commander John Freeborn is cleared from vegetation.
The Wing Commander was based at RAF Hornchurch during the Second World War. The Hornchurch airfield played a vital part in the Battle of Britain during August and September 1940.
The memorial is overgrown, and as Armed Forces Day approaches, Margaret intervened with HaveringCouncil to call for the memorial and the area to be cleared and tidied. Havering quickly responded to say that the Council’s Grounds Maintenance Teamare currently arranging for this area to be tidied up in readiness for Armed Forces Day.
Margaret told the Havering Daily: “I am pleased that Havering have quickly got back to me to clear the memorial. It is so important that we properly honour the memory of the brave men and women who fought to defeat Nazism in the Second World War to give us the freedom and democracy we have in Britain today.”
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