Travel | 69
“If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.” Rupert Brooke
Clockwise from top: What’s left of the main building at the former RAF Wildenrath base (file pic); Entrance to the Rheindahlen War Cemetery; Fenced-off guard house to the RAF Hospital Wegberg.
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funny thing happened on my recent trip to the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon. Mrs iM’s Father was a Royal Air Force pilot based in Wegberg, Germany, in the 1960s. Wegberg is only 40 km or so west of Düsseldorf and close to the Dutch border, and on the Saturday of the first weekend of the Salon I ventured out to try and locate her
birthplace. Specifically, Mrs iM was born at the RAF Hospital Wegberg, which not only served the RAF base some miles away, but was adjacent to JHQ (Joint Headquarters) Rheindahlen, the headquarters for British forces in Germany and the NATO Northern Army Group.